On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:40:46PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > AFS filesystem implementations like OpenAFS have a number of management calls > usually implemented through the pioctl() and afs() system calls. However, > there is general revulsion to the idea of allowing these in Linux as they are > very much abused. > > Now, I need to come up with replacements for these. For some I can use > getxattr()/setxattr(), for some keyrings and for others procfs/sysfs, but for > some I can't. > > One of these is the call to manage local caching on a file or volume. This, > however, doesn't really need to be limited to AFS, but could also be > applicable to NFS, CIFS, etc. - and possibly even to local filesystems. Do you have a summary of the AFS interface to give an idea what's needed? --b. -- 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
