Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262232AbVAEBNt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:13:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262229AbVAEBNp (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:13:45 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:63109 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262224AbVAEBMx (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:12:53 -0500 Subject: Re: FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes From: Nicholas Miell To: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , sfrench@samba.org, ntfs-dev , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, lkml In-Reply-To: <1104886081.3815.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <41D9C635.1090703@zytor.com> <1104834865.26349.32.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <1104877121.3815.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1104886081.3815.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:12:50 -0800 Message-Id: <1104887570.3815.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.njm.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:48 -0800, Nicholas Miell wrote: > [ Note to audience: the following is a long (and largely irrelevant to > the subject) discussion of how NTFS could implement reparse points and > encryption on Linux. Feel free to ignore it. ] Sorry for the reply to my own message, but I forget to mention in the original that the right thing to do for the Encrypted and Reparse bits may be just be to silently discard them and not support the manipulation of these rather esoteric NTFS features through a general API at all. -- Nicholas Miell - 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/