I looked at this in today's linux-next and ran a few renames through...

Acked-by:: Mike Marshall <hub...@omnibond.com>

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:05:29PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> This is trivial to do:
>>
>>  - add flags argument to foo_rename()
>>  - check if flags is zero
>>  - assign foo_rename() to .rename2 instead of .rename
>>
>> This doesn't mean it's impossible to support RENAME_NOREPLACE for these
>> filesystems, but it is not trivial, like for local filesystems.
>> RENAME_NOREPLACE must guarantee atomicity (i.e. it shouldn't be possible
>> for a file to be created on one host while it is overwritten by rename on
>> another host).
>>
>> Filesystems converted:
>>
>> 9p, afs, ceph, coda, ecryptfs, exofs, kernfs, lustre, ncpfs, nfs, ocfs2,
>> orangefs.
>>
>> After this, we can get rid of the duplicate interfaces for rename.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <eri...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryo...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Jan Harkes <jahar...@cs.cmu.edu>
>> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@canonical.com>
>> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <o...@electrozaur.com>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.dro...@intel.com>
>> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>
>> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfas...@suse.com>
>> Cc: Mike Marshall <hub...@omnibond.com>
>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

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