Oleg Drokin wrote: > >>AT_STRICT allows userspace to indicate that it wants the most up to > >>date > >>version of a files status, regardless of performance impact. A > >>distributed > >>file system which has a non-coherent inode cache would know then to > >>send a > >>direct query to it's server. > >Good idea! Sort out some NFS pain. > >If a filesystem doesn't honour AT_STRICT, can we have the function > >return an error instead of stale values? > > Supposedly the existing stat() is the way to do this? I don't understand your response. If an application wants to be sure it has non-stale attributes, how does stat() help? Are you saying stat() does this? (Afaik it doesn't on NFS). -- Jamie -- 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
