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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/11] vfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE flag
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:35:04PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:19 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:10:09PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >>
> >> If this flag is specified and the target of the rename exists then the
> >> rename syscall fails with EEXIST.
> >
> > Why is this useful?
> >
> > (I'm sure it is, it'd just be useful to have the reasons recorded
> > someplace.)
> >
> >> The VFS does the existence checking, so it is trivial to enable for most
> >> local filesystems. This patch only enables it in ext4.
> >>
> >> For network filesystems the VFS check is not enough as there may be a race
> >> between a remote create and the rename, so these filesystems need to handle
> >> this flag in their ->rename() implementations to ensure atomicity.
> >
> > Till that's done this should probably result in -EOPNOTSUPP on those
> > filesystems?
> >
> > I think this would need new protocol in the NFS case.
>
> Yes, it needs to be enabled on a case-by-case basis.

Oh, right, I missed all those

if (flags)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

added with "vfs: add renameat2 syscall". Apologies.

> Only enabled for
> ext4 now, but trivial to do for most fs.

Got it, thanks!

--b.


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