Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There has been a lot of interest in allowing the user to specify exactly > which fields they want the filesystem to return, and whether or not the > kernel can use cached data or not. The main use is to allow > specification of a 'stat light' that could help speed up > "readdir()+multiple stat()" type queries. At last year's Filesystem and > Storage Workshop, Mark Fasheh actually came up with an initial design: > > http://www.kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2009/4/7/5427274 > > If we're going to add in a whole new syscall for stat, should we perhaps > revisit this discussion? I could certainly absorb that patch. One further consideration following on from what you said: Is it worth having an extended getdents() that can return stat data too? That might be useful for NFS. David -- 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
