Re: [RFC] atomic create+open

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 12:08:29 EST


> The reason why we do it as a lookup intent is because this has to be
> atomic lookup+create+open in order to be at all useful to NFS.

Oh, and btw there's a problem with atomic lookup+create+open: mounts.
Do you want to follow mounts inside ->lookup(). Ugly.

Miklos


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