Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:41:07 +0000
From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call
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> 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.

Alan