On Jan 6, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 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.
>
> A brainstorming session on this would be useful.
I guess this would be very interesting for Lustre as well.
Bye,
Oleg--
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