Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:10:23 +0000 From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <m...@netbsd.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 07:09:12AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am not following this. My basic issue is that while I see your point > about open files in FUSE being different, I don't see how that's > different from multiple open files in any other filesystem. > > What specific flags are you talking about, and can you explain why a > FUSE vfs implementation would need to know but say UFS would not? I talked to the glusterFS developer that hit the problem about the requirement. This is to iplement mandatory locks, a feature not available in UFS. Why is this file-system-specific? Can you share a pointer to the relevant logic?