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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:49:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12943.1479476971@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161118134107.5bfecb72@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Hmmm... Interesting question.  Probably should.  But you could be insane and
> > RAID an nbd and a local disk.  Further, does NFS over a loopback device to
> > nfsd on the same machine qualify as root?  What if that's exposing a local fs
> > on NBD?  Perhaps I should drop 'REMOTE' for now.  It sounds like something
> > that a GUI filemanager might find interesting, though.
> 
> GUI file managers already try and guess some of this in order to decide
> whether to display icons off remote file systems.
> 
> You could be insane but it's always going to be a hint and nothing more
> and if it can't be perfect then that just goes in the notes in the manual
> page.

I've dropped REMOTE, FABRICATED, KERNEL_API, NONUNIX_OWNERSHIP, HAS_ACL and
UNLISTED_DENTS for now.  I'm keeping AUTOMOUNT as that seems fairly
straightforward - though I'm sure we can find someone to disagree! ;-)

David

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17 13:34 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells
2016-11-17 13:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells
2016-11-17 18:39   ` Jeff Layton
2016-11-18  2:32     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18  8:59     ` David Howells
2016-11-18  8:59       ` David Howells
2016-11-18  9:25       ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18  9:25         ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-17 23:40   ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18  3:28     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18 22:07       ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18 22:54       ` David Howells
2016-11-19 22:43         ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-21 14:30         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-21 20:43           ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-22 10:39         ` David Howells
2016-11-22 13:55           ` Jeff Layton
2016-11-22 20:58           ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18  9:53     ` David Howells
2016-11-18  8:48   ` David Howells
2016-11-18 12:01     ` Jeff Layton
2016-11-18  9:36   ` David Howells
2016-11-18 17:17     ` Jeff Layton
2016-11-18 18:04     ` David Howells
2016-11-18 18:54       ` Jeff Layton
2016-11-18 19:08       ` David Howells
2016-11-18  9:43   ` David Howells
2016-11-18 21:41     ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18 22:24     ` David Howells
2016-11-18 10:29   ` David Howells
2016-11-18 10:29     ` David Howells
2016-11-18 21:27     ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18 21:48     ` David Howells
2016-11-18 21:48       ` David Howells
2016-11-18 22:17       ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18 22:17         ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-19 10:21         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-17 13:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells
2016-11-18  3:30   ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-17 13:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: " David Howells
2016-11-17 13:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: " David Howells
2016-11-18  3:34   ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18  8:47   ` David Howells
2016-11-17 14:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-17 15:10 ` Michael Kerrisk
2016-11-17 16:33 ` David Howells
2016-11-17 16:45 ` David Howells
2016-11-17 20:00   ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-11-18  2:30     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18  4:29       ` NeilBrown
2016-11-18 13:41   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-18 13:49   ` David Howells [this message]

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