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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0  -  (NUMA))
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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