[Gluster-devel] how does meta xlator work?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Anand Avati <avati at gluster.org> wrote:

> If FUSE implements proper direct_io semantics (somewhat like how O_DIRECT
> flag is handled) and allows the mode to be enabled by the FS in open_cbk,
> then I guess such a special handling of 0-byte need not be necessary?

Yes, this is how it should be done.

While there I see there is a FUSE_FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE  and
FUSE_FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE. I assume the later means seek should return an
error (which one?), but what does the first one do?

There is no real documentation about this aside from Linux kernel
sources...

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