From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #4] Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:35:55 +0100 Message-ID: <991.1278081355@redhat.com> References: <20100702110346.GB11732@laptop> <20100701235727.19035.84584.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Nick Piggin Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:65256 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755037Ab0GBOgD (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:36:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100702110346.GB11732@laptop> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available, > > including file creation time, inode version and data version where > > available through the underlying filesystem. > > Can you describe the expected atomicity requirements for the requests, > please? As for stat(), lstat() and fstat(). David