From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:35:37 +0100 Message-ID: <1963780.VoDvOYV05y@merkaba> References: <1502878.QisWlqATFu@merkaba> <20151120145422.18930.72662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <4495.1448036915@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: David Howells , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4495.1448036915@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-cifs.vger.kernel.org Cc linux-afs dropped due to bounce: : host vger.kernel.org[209.132.180.67] said: 554 5.0.0 Hi [194.150.191.11], unresolvable address: ; nosuchuser; linux-afs@vger.kernel.org (in reply to RCPT TO command) Am Freitag, 20. November 2015, 16:28:35 CET schrieb David Howells: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Any plans to add limitations of filesystem to the call like maximum file > > size? I know its mostly relevant for just for FAT32, but on any account > > rather than trying to write 4 GiB and then file, it would be good to at > > some time get a dialog at the beginning of the copy. > > Adding filesystem limits can be done. I got a shopping list of things > people wanted a while back and I've worked off of that list. I can add > other things - that's on of the reasons I left room for expansion. Cool, thank you for bringing this forward. I am teaching in my Linux trainings since years that one day one will be able to see file creation time with stat shell command, actually mentioning ideas to make some xstat/statx system call. :) Thanks, -- Martin