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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove the XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE definitions out of xfs_fs.h
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:23:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZMBnfRBoUqkLmsQG@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230725040044.GY11352@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 09:00:44PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Does anyone actually /use/ these extended extended attribute functions?

xfsdump, for one.

And, IIRC, there were other SGI HSM-aware applications that used
libhandle for these functions too, but I think we can largely ignore
those on Linux nowdays.

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-26  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-24 15:44 stop exposing the XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE uapi structures Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-24 15:44 ` [PATCH] xfs: remove the XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE definitions out of xfs_fs.h Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-25  3:49   ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-25  4:00     ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-26  0:23       ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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