Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:00:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:59:57 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:5897 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:59:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC11AFA.92889B47@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:58:02 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Hollis CC: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Larger dev_t In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > c) Make sure chown/chmod/link/symlink/rename/rm etc does the right thing, > > without the need for "tar hacks" or anything equivalently gross. > > write-through filesystem, like overlaying a r/w ext2 on top of an iso9660 > fs. > This is not necessarily the right way to do it, since it may not carry with it the appropriate information. Richard, I belive, was planning to implement this using devfsd. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/