Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 24 2017 - 12:13:54 EST


I'm still very unhappy about the get/set flag state. What is the
reason you can't use/extend leases? (take a look at the fcntl
man page and look for Leases). A variant of the concept is what
the pNFS block server uses.