The description of this flag says "Don't sync attributes with the server". In other words: always use the attributes cached in the kernel and don't send network or local messages to refresh the attributes.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Harkes <[email protected]> --- fs/coda/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/coda/inode.c b/fs/coda/inode.c index 6058df380cc0..734672b2cbdc 100644 --- a/fs/coda/inode.c +++ b/fs/coda/inode.c @@ -255,7 +255,10 @@ static void coda_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) int coda_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask, unsigned int flags) { - int err = coda_revalidate_inode(d_inode(path->dentry)); + int err = 0; + + if (!(flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC)) + err = coda_revalidate_inode(d_inode(path->dentry)); if (!err) generic_fillattr(d_inode(path->dentry), stat); return err; -- 2.5.5
