I think it makes sense to include 'unlink' in the ioengine API. The Unix semantics of being able to unlink open files goes back a long ways, but for those environments which don't match it, the following patch gives an opportunity to handle things differently. I also have a patch for some stylistic issues... -castor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html