Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello OGAWA, > > On 6/1/22 19:32, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The series adds support for the renameat2 system call RENAME_EXCHANGE flag >> (which allows to atomically replace two paths) to the vfat filesystem code. >> >> There are many use cases for this, but we are particularly interested in >> making possible for vfat filesystems to be part of OSTree [0] deployments. >> >> Currently OSTree relies on symbolic links to make the deployment updates >> an atomic transactional operation. But RENAME_EXCHANGE could be used [1] >> to achieve a similar level of robustness when using a vfat filesystem. >> >> Patch #1 is just a preparatory patch to introduce the RENAME_EXCHANGE >> support, patch #2 moves some code blocks in vfat_rename() to a set of >> helper functions, that can be reused by tvfat_rename_exchange() that's >> added by patch #3 and finally patch #4 adds some kselftests to test it. >> > > I think that addressed all the issues you pointed out in v3, please let me > know if there's anything else that is needed for this patch series. > > Would these be merged by you or should I ping someone else? I'm not > that familiar with how filesystem patches make into the mainline tree. Sorry, it is just the my issue. I was traveling latest week, so is not reviewing yet. I'll do soon. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
