Hi Andrew! Al! Folks! The following set of patches extends the per device 'noatime', 'nodiratime' and last but not least the 'ro' (read only) mount option to the vfs --bind mounts, allowing them to behave like any other mount, by honoring those mount flags (which are silently ignored by the current implementation in 2.4.x and 2.6.x)
the patch makes the following syscall variations behave as expected: - open (read/write/trunc), create - link, symlink, unlink - mknod (reg/block/char/fifo) - mkfifo, mkdir, rmdir, rename - (f,l)chown, (f)chmod, utime - access, truncate, mmap - ioctl (gen/ext2/ext3/reiser) - (f,l)setxattr, (f,l)removexattr an older version of this patch was included in 2.6.0-test6-mm2, and v2.6.4-wolk2.0, the patches were used by several people, without any issues ... please consider inclusion (in -mm ?) and/or let me know what needs to be changed to get this functionality into mainline ... patches are against 2.6.11-rc4 but they do apply fine against 2.6.11-rc4-bk9 (so no modification required) TIA, Herbert (all six patches are) Signed-off-by: Herbert P�tzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
