On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:37:01PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote: > We use this capability in XFS at the moment. > I think this is mainly for DMF (HSM) but is done via the xfs handle > interface > (xfs_open_by_handle) AFAICT. > You're not :) You're using an O_INVIBLE equivalent (as described below), which would be a useful thing to have at the VFS level, but adding hacks to some system calls only wouldn't help any HSM system. It's just useless API clutter. - 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
