From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628192105.GA23863@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilkfPkvyuQvN9zKrrY3DhJZ5iUfa5RXfErFwTiA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> That sounds better but it hits the fs, vfs and libc
> and seems like libc is near impossible to get changes into.
If you do it properly it's not hard to get changes into libc.
Let's do it properly instead of adding hacks like that. Synthetic
xattrs causes much more problems than they solve.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 16:26 [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs David Howells
[not found] ` <20100628162626.6026.26679.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 16:33 ` Steve French
2010-06-28 16:48 ` Jeremy Allison
2010-06-28 17:04 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <AANLkTilkfPkvyuQvN9zKrrY3DhJZ5iUfa5RXfErFwTiA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 17:14 ` Jeremy Allison
2010-06-28 19:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-29 22:44 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <26197.1277851477-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 22:59 ` Jeremy Allison
2010-06-29 23:31 ` David Howells
2010-06-28 19:08 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <19AAF9AA-2445-4C73-808B-4AD9C5C7E769-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-28 19:38 ` David Howells
2010-06-28 19:41 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <AANLkTikhZn15GmOTe-fsM2IgxHFxtZIRBOb_4kPWSR4E-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 18:13 ` Andreas Dilger
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