linux-kernel - Re: ceph, cifs, nfs, fuse: boolean and / or confusion

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Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:45:11 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	roel <roel.kluin@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	sage@...dream.net, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ceph, cifs, nfs, fuse: boolean and / or confusion

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 18:39 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> As far as NFS is concerned, it reverts a regression. NFS only used to
> run revalidate_file_size() for SEEK_END prior to commit
> 06222e491e663dac939f04b125c9dc52126a75c4. I accept that we now also need
> to run it for SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, but we've never had to do so for
> SEEK_SET and SEEK_CUR.

BTW: The regression exists in 3.1, so this is probably a stable
candidate...

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com

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