[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH v2 1/3] fs: rename FMODE_NOACCOUNT to FMODE_INTERNAL

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Jun 12 06:15:51 UTC 2023


On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 11:11:25PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:08:37AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > Well, I am not sure if FMODE_FAKE_PATH in v3 is a better name,
> > because you did rightfully say that "fake path" is not that descriptive,
> > but I will think of a better way to describe "fake path" and match the
> > flag to the file container name.
> 
> I suspect the just claling it out what it is and naming it
> FMODE_OVERLAYFS might be a good idea.  We'd just need to make sure not
> to set it for the cachefiles use case, which is probably a good idea
> anyway.

Adding Dave:

not sure if I'm missing something, but is there any good reason
cachefs doesn't juse use dentry_open() ?



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