Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266646AbUIEN3c (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266669AbUIEN3c (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:29:32 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:45991 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266646AbUIEN32 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:29:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:28:10 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Oliver Hunt Cc: Hans Reiser , Linus Torvalds , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Message-ID: <20040905132810.GM26560@thundrix.ch> References: <20040902002431.GN31934@mail.shareable.org> <413694E6.7010606@slaphack.com> <4136A14E.9010303@slaphack.com> <4136C876.5010806@namesys.com> <4136E0B6.4000705@namesys.com> <4699bb7b04090202121119a57b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kunpHVz1op/+13PW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4699bb7b04090202121119a57b@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1180 Lines: 38 --kunpHVz1op/+13PW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Salut, On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:56PM +1200, Oliver Hunt wrote: > getNumForks(fileref){ return 1;}=20 Actually it might be even cooler to have a generic function which you can apply to any file on a file system (or whatever) and which returns you the file system's capabilities (can write, has xattrs, has acl, has multiple streams, *not* has btree lookups etc, as that is *not* interesting to userland anyway.) Tonnerre --kunpHVz1op/+13PW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBOxRp/4bL7ovhw40RAtm6AKCVXu2FPURiqaOdSxCYJX4NiV+JrACdG0+Z p2Jm8Y5p07XEv2tESDGiyUo= =VoxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kunpHVz1op/+13PW-- - 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/