Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:36:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >   Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for
> >    execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent
> >    behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution
> >    happens on different nodes.
> You forgot something.
> Are other clustered/distributed filesystems likely to need something like
> this and if so, is this implementation sufficient for their purposes?

No, I did not.
I CCed fsdevel originally in part because other clustered/distributed
filesystems developers are likely to read lkml or fsdevel and might share their
opinions about the patch and the approach itself.
Actually I am not sure if any other non-local filesystem tries to be as close
to local fs in semantic as Lustre does.

Bye,
    Oleg
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