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Message-ID: <20150511144719.GA14088@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 10:47:19 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
Cc:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API Mailing List <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: add a O_NOMTIME flag

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 07:13:24PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> That makes it completely non-generic though. By putting this in the
> VFS, you are giving applications a loaded gun that is pointed straight
> at the application user's head.

Let me re-ask the question that I asked last week (and was apparently
ignored).  Why not trying to use the lazytime feature instead of
pointing a head straight at the application's --- and system
administrators' --- heads?

						- Ted
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