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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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	linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:40:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131127114034.GA13491@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131112173526.25813.85546.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:35:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes so that they can be retrieved (or
> even altered) using the FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctl and read using statxat().

As mentioned before we're running out of these flags and we already have
a horrible mash up between filesystem specific implementation details
an generally useful ones, so if you want to add them to a stat-like
call you better define an entirely new namespaces.

Also each of the added ones needs a good justification either way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-12 17:35 [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat system call David Howells
2013-11-12 17:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes David Howells
     [not found]   ` <20131112173526.25813.85546.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-12 18:06     ` Steve French
2013-11-12 22:25     ` Andreas Dilger
2013-11-27 11:40     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-12 17:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] statxat: Add a system call to make extended file stats available David Howells
     [not found]   ` <20131112173534.25813.70732.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-12 18:44     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-27 11:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-17 10:20   ` Florian Weimer
2013-11-12 17:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] statxat: AFS: Return enhanced basic attributes David Howells

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