On 6/8/22 11:42, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > 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. > Sure, there's no rush. I just wanted to confirm that. Thanks a lot! -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
