>Say, did you implement some support for this yet?
>I mean the special flag for open() that allows in-situ overwriting..

Not there yet. I am waiting to see if it's just so much hot air like some other "desperately needed" features have been in the past.

But I think this could be a really cool extension even for stock ["blessed with holy Torvalds penguin pee"] kernels.. so maybe I'll look at it and do a nice job on it. Someday..

Cheers