Re: [PATCH] fuse: skip lookup during atomic_open() when O_CREAT is set

From: Bernd Schubert

Date: Mon Feb 23 2026 - 12:10:27 EST



On 2/20/26 21:41, Jim Harris wrote:
> From: Jim Harris <jim.harris@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When O_CREAT is set, we don't need the lookup. The lookup doesn't
> harm anything, but it's an extra FUSE operation that's not required.

Problem is that it is a change of behavior - it might cause issues for
some fuse server implementations that expect that a node-id was obtained
before open of an existing file is done.


Thanks,
Bernd