From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Attempt at "stat light" implementation
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:55:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090412205505.GJ4394@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50904071230h4850b5e3q2ad72a8e8babe09a@mail.gmail.com>
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> As for making the interface extendable. In all the years there hasn't
> really been much need to extend the stat structure (ignoring extended
> attributes). So, I'd not be worried about using a simple 32-bit
> bitmask to select the fields to include in the fast stat.
I agree about 32 bits being enough.
I think there has been some demand for new fields, but it's not been
strong enough to justify all the breakage from changing the normal
stat structure.
That's why we have generic filesystem ioctls: FS_IOC_GETFLAGS,
FS_IOC_GETVERSION, which return things which would naturally go with
stat if it were free to do so (but it isn't).
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-12 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 6:23 Attempt at "stat light" implementation Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 10:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-04-07 14:54 ` Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-07 15:22 ` jim owens
2009-04-07 15:38 ` Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 16:20 ` jim owens
2009-04-07 17:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-07 17:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 17:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-07 18:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-04-07 19:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-04-12 20:55 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-04-07 17:41 ` Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 17:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-07 18:00 ` Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 18:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-04-07 18:31 ` Nicholas Miell
2009-04-07 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-07 17:56 ` Oleg Drokin
2009-04-07 18:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-04-07 18:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-07 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 19:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 20:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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