linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:18:10 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	hch@...radead.org
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, matthew@....cx, hch@...radead.org,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, adilger@...sterfs.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

> > If a network filesystem protocol can't handle operations (be it data
> > or metadata) on an unlinked file, we must do sillirenaming, so that
> > the file is not actually unlinked.
> 
> Or not support such a broken protocol at all.

Wonder what people would say if we removed support for NFSv[23].

Just because a protocol does not support "perfect" UNIX semantics, it
doesn't mean it's broken.  By that standard almost all network
filesystem protocols are severely broken.

Miklos
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