Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753299AbcKRNte convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:49:34 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46738 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752335AbcKRNtd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:49:33 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20161118134107.5bfecb72@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20161118134107.5bfecb72@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20161117143904.4ae757b4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <147938969703.13574.10295364502230379833.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <15516.1479401145@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: One Thousand Gnomes 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <12942.1479476971.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:49:31 +0000 Message-ID: <12943.1479476971@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 20 One Thousand Gnomes 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