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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Lars R. Damerow" <lars@pixar.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:54:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40aa078e1003301754u3a1e5e9je7bb2aa2dc04f6a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003301610151.3707@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>> Fashionably late, of course. I agree with your reasoning that it is
>> a more sane default. The only thing that would make me hesitate on it
>> now is that it is a behavior change. I suspect the group we would be
>> breaking is small or even zero, though.
>
> Well, I have to admit that I'm a _tiny_ bit nervous that some odd OS or
> filesystem has special magic st_dev rules so that it changes randomly even
> within a filesystem, but that would be very non-posix (think of the
> confusion it would cause standard UNIX tools like 'find -xdev' etc), so
> it's more a worry of "I have no idea what st_dev means on Windows" than
> anything really solid.
>

st_dev means "Drive number of the disk containing the file (same as
st_rdev)."[1], and mounting file systems as subdirs of other file
systems is rare (but possible) on Windows.

However, in our (f)stat implementation, st_dev means 0 -- but this
might be possible to improve on.

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14h5k7ff(VS.71).aspx

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17 19:55 [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM Lars R. Damerow
2010-03-17 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] config.c: remove static keyword from git_env_bool() Lars R. Damerow
2010-03-17 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] truncate cwd string before printing error message Lars R. Damerow
2010-03-17 19:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM Lars R. Damerow
2010-03-28  9:22   ` Jeff King
2010-03-28 12:05     ` Jeff King
2010-03-28 16:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-28 17:32       ` Lars Damerow
2010-03-30 15:58         ` Jeff King
2010-03-30 22:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-30 22:59         ` Thomas Rast
2010-03-30 23:04           ` Jeff King
2010-03-30 23:02         ` Jeff King
2010-03-30 23:10           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-30 23:12           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-31  0:54             ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
2010-04-04 18:00               ` [PATCH] GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM: flip the default to stop at filesystem boundaries Junio C Hamano
2010-04-04 22:30                 ` [PATCH] Rename ONE_FILESYSTEM to DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM Junio C Hamano
2010-04-04 22:37                   ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-04 22:39                 ` [PATCH] GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM: flip the default to stop at filesystem boundaries Junio C Hamano

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