Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] fuse: add compound command to combine multiple requests

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 at 12:37, Horst Birthelmer <horst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I naively thought that fuse_atomic_open() was actually there to do an atomic open ... ;-)

Yes, it helps with atomicity relative to operations on other clients
in a distributed fs.

For a local fs it does not make a difference in terms of correctness,
but with compounds it could improve performance compared to separate
lookup + mknod + open.

Thanks,
Miklos