From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>,
Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:47:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160823144710.GB9798@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471961132-1675-5-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com>
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 <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
> Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 14:05 [PATCH 0/7] vfs: finish rename -> rename2 conversion Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] ncpfs: fix unused variable warning Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 21:48 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-08-25 12:52 ` Bob Copeland
2016-09-08 13:55 ` Jan Kara
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-08-23 17:30 ` Mike Marshall
2016-08-23 16:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-08-23 16:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] vfs: remove unused i_op->rename Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename" Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 14:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting Miklos Szeredi
2016-08-23 15:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 David Howells
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