From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:35:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D9BA8B.2000108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104787447.3604.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Nicholas Miell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:57 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>This patch adds a set of ioctls to get and set the FAT filesystem native
>>attribute bits, including the unused bits (6 and 7.)
>>
>
>
> Instead of adding another ioctl, wouldn't an xattr be more appropriate?
> For instance, system.fatattrs containing a text representation of the
> attribute bits.
>
This really worries me, because it's not clear to me that Microsoft
isn't going to add NTFS-style xattrs to FAT in the future. There is a
very specific reason why they might want to do that: since they want to
keep NTFS secret and proprietary, FAT is the published interchange
format that other devices can use to exchange data with MS operating
systems. If we then have overloaded the xattr mechanism, that would be
very ugly.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-03 20:57 [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 21:24 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-03 21:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-01-03 21:46 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-03 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 22:10 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-03 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:16 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-03 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:46 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 10:09 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-04 21:45 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 8:34 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-01-04 9:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <fa.ea9o20r.kje5qn@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.lub44op.a2ec2d@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-04 11:57 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-04 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <fa.i537e7s.1d6m90c@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ihdqkec.1i5umji@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-06 0:07 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-06 1:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
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