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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:26:38PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> hostfs tries do reduce the amount of syscall between guest and host as much
> as possible. For file operations it passes everything down to the host but
> for directory operations only ->iterate() does.
>
> It is already horrible slow, if we add an ->open() for directory too it would
> get even more slower. :-(

This sounds fairlt dangerous. At least add some good documentation
explaining these semantics.



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