Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:50:40 +0100 |
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> There has been a lot of interest in allowing the user to specify exactly > which fields they want the filesystem to return, and whether or not the > kernel can use cached data or not. The main use is to allow > specification of a 'stat light' that could help speed up > "readdir()+multiple stat()" type queries. At last year's Filesystem and > Storage Workshop, Mark Fasheh actually came up with an initial design: > > http://www.kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2009/4/7/5427274 > > If we're going to add in a whole new syscall for stat, should we perhaps > revisit this discussion?
I could certainly absorb that patch.
One further consideration following on from what you said: Is it worth having an extended getdents() that can return stat data too? That might be useful for NFS.
David
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