Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 0/5] fuse: close file synchronously (v2)

[Maxim Patlasov]

On 06/06/2014 05:51 PM, John Muir wrote:
> On 2014.06.06, at 15:27 , Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The patch-set resolves the problem by making fuse_release synchronous:
> > wait for ACK from userspace for FUSE_RELEASE if the feature is ON.
> Why not make this feature per-file with a new flag bit in struct fuse_file_info rather than as a file-system global?

I don't expect a great demand for such a granularity. File-system global 
"close_wait" conveys a general user expectation about filesystem 
behaviour in distributed environment: if you stopped using a file on 
given node, whether it means that the file is immediately accessible 
from another node.

Maxim

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