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SubjectRe: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > I don't care about the cache semantics at all; what I care
> > about is whether a returned stat() result may be stale.
>
> Note that this too may be a per-file property.

Yes. A flag from stat() or similar to say it's stale would make
sense. Alternatively, a flag _into_ something like stat() to ask for
an up to date value, if that is possible.

I've often wondered if stat() couldn't be a bit more extensible with
some flags or extended attributes.

-- Jamie
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