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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: add a O_NOMTIME flag
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 10:47:19 -0400
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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 07:13:24PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> That makes it completely non-generic though. By putting this in the
> VFS, you are giving applications a loaded gun that is pointed straight
> at the application user's head.

Let me re-ask the question that I asked last week (and was apparently
ignored).  Why not trying to use the lazytime feature instead of
pointing a head straight at the application's --- and system
administrators' --- heads?

						- Ted