On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:30:52AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:24:02PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > XFS has a mode called invisble I/O that doesn't update any of the > > timestamps. It's used for HSM-style applications and exposed through > > the nasty open by handle ioctl. > > > > Instead of doing directly assignment of file operations that set an > > internal flag for it add a new FMODE_INVISIBLE flag that we can check > > in the normal file operations. > > Seeing that it's similar to O_NOATIME, why not do it in O_... space? For now I just want to get rid of the horrible hack in XFS. Adding this as a user-visible feature might be a good idea that those who need it can submit. -- 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
