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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:05 -0400
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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.