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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:01:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> I'd be happy to have them.  While it's not the nicest API in the world
> it's in Posix and we have to support it at the library level, so we
> should better get it right.
> 
> I'd like to avoid having a big swithc statement in every filesystem,
> though, instead of we should have a table-driven approach instead
> where each filesystem defines one table (or multiple ones when it
> supports subtypes with different limits) and just sets a pointer in
> the superblock to it.
> 

This is starting to sound an awful lot like statfs().  Maybe we could
create a new statfs call which takes a buffer size input (so that we can
add new fields as time goes on) and which returns the necessary information?

	-hpa
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