> >> > This is needed to be able to correctly implement open-unlink-fsetattr > >> > semantics in some filesystem such as sshfs, without having to resort > >> > to "silly-renaming". > >> > >> How do you plan to do that? > > > > Easy: the SFTP protocol has stateful opens and defines an FSTAT call. > > Is it possible to reconnect without umounting? Yes, but open files and in-progress requests are lost at reconnect. > If yes, the unlinked files would be lost in spite of being opened, > wouldn't they? Sure. Obviously one of the drawbacks of a stateful protocol is that the server state can't survive a reconnect. But that sort of reliability has never been the goal of sshfs. And even if that was needed, it could probably be much better handled in a lower layer. Miklos - 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
