From: Olaf van der Spek Subject: Re: Atomic file data replace API Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:25:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20101228025937.GE10149@thunk.org> <4D1A351B.5080604@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Ric Wheeler Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:43228 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532Ab0L1WZo (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:25:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D1A351B.5080604@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > I really think that you have missed the point of this list. > > This list is for either developers (those who have downloaded the free code > and work on it) or others who want to move things forward concretely. Maybe. > Perfectly fine to contribute ideas, but if you are not a coder or do not > have the time or inclination to work on things yourself, you have to be > *really* convincing. > > We continually get bombarded with ideas, wish list items, etc so we are not > lacking in work to do. I understand. > If you cannot explain the use case, you will not get any buy in... I assumed that preserving file owner would be a normal feature and would not require additional explanation. One use case would be updating a file in a save way when you have write access to that file but not to anything else. Also, according to Ted, a lot of app devs get saving a file in a safe way wrong. So I'm asking what the recommended way to do it is. Is that strange? Olaf