Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Rob Landley
2002-10-08T22:01:00Z

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 03:39 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Well the current Orlov patch will spread top-level directories,
> so as long as /home is a mountpoint, we're fine.
>
> For more generalality, yes, I think a new chattr flag on the
> parent directory which says "spread my subdirectories out"
> would be a good solution.

Individual sysadmins may not use it much, but getting distributions to put it
in their install/upgrade software isn't too unlikely...

Rob