Hi Martin, On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:38 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > The update-on-write to special file thing seems bit strange to me. What > > if two processes ask for it at the same time? On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:40 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Yes, we had that discussion as well. Any sensible suggestion how to do > it in a more clever way would be greatly appreciated. We haven't found > something better so far. The only way I can think of is via s_ops->remount_fs. That's bit safer anyway, as sb->s_lock protects us from concurrent updates. I am cc'ing fsdevel to see if they can come up with a better suggestion. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html