Re: GFS2: Add atomic_open support

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:50:12PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> 
> The following patch implements atomic_open for GFS2. This is mostly
> straightforward, however there is one corner case which I've had to
> deal with, beyond what would normally be expected for a local
> filesystem.

Broken - what will happen if you hit a symlink, for starters?  On everything
handled locally you should just return finish_no_open(file, dentry) and
let the caller deal with that; the only cases that might make sense to
handle in ->atomic_open() are regular files and directories.  For gfs2 it
should be just regular files.  While we are at it, do you even need
->private_data for gfs2 directories?
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