On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:05:29PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is trivial to do:
> 
>  - add flags argument to foo_rename()
>  - check if flags is zero
>  - assign foo_rename() to .rename2 instead of .rename
> 
> This doesn't mean it's impossible to support RENAME_NOREPLACE for these
> filesystems, but it is not trivial, like for local filesystems.
> RENAME_NOREPLACE must guarantee atomicity (i.e. it shouldn't be possible
> for a file to be created on one host while it is overwritten by rename on
> another host).
> 
> Filesystems converted:
> 
> 9p, afs, ceph, coda, ecryptfs, exofs, kernfs, lustre, ncpfs, nfs, ocfs2,
> orangefs.
> 
> After this, we can get rid of the duplicate interfaces for rename.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <eri...@gmail.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryo...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jan Harkes <jahar...@cs.cmu.edu>
> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@canonical.com>
> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <o...@electrozaur.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.dro...@intel.com>
> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>
> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfas...@suse.com>
> Cc: Mike Marshall <hub...@omnibond.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

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