On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:41:00AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> OK, after looking at this a little more, I'm less happy about the idea
> of erroring out by default:
> 
>       - There are a ton of filesystems that probably should allow
>         leases, and only a few (network filesystems) that shouldn't,
>         so leaving leases on by default seems simpler.

But it gets you possible wrong behaviour by default.  I'm not a big
fan of non-trivial default methods as you see :)

>       - We already fall back on the local method by default in the case
>         of locks, and I don't see a reason to treat leases differently.
>       - The patch to add
>               .setlease = setlease,
>         to all the file_operations is going to be a big patch that
>         changes behavior in a way that might be easy to miss (because
>         it changes behavior exactly on those filesystems it *doesn't*
>         touch.)  I think it'll be easier to get better review on the
>         patch that adds a method just to those filesystems that we're
>         disabling leases for.

Anyway, feel free to go ahead with the simpler version for now, I'll do
the switchover for locks and leases when I get some time.
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