On Sep 21, 2007 14:23 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was > initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag". > > This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their > ->open() method can ignore such truncate requests.
This is actually something we've needed to do in Lustre for a while also. We called it ATTR_FROM_OPEN, but I don't really mind ATTR_OPEN either - the less patching we need to do the better. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
