The description of this flag says "Don't sync attributes with the server". In other words: always use the attributes cached in the kernel and don't send network or local messages to refresh the attributes. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/orangefs/inode.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/orangefs/inode.c b/fs/orangefs/inode.c index 9428ea0aac16..1b3c4c4dd3d4 100644 --- a/fs/orangefs/inode.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/inode.c @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int orangefs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr) int orangefs_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask, unsigned int flags) { - int ret = -ENOENT; + int ret = 0; struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode; struct orangefs_inode_s *orangefs_inode = NULL; @@ -255,7 +255,9 @@ int orangefs_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat, "orangefs_getattr: called on %pd\n", path->dentry); - ret = orangefs_inode_getattr(inode, 0, 0, request_mask); + if (!(flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC)) + ret = orangefs_inode_getattr(inode, 0, 0, request_mask); + if (ret == 0) { generic_fillattr(inode, stat); -- 2.5.5