Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759316AbXIXN1k (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:27:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753918AbXIXN1b (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:27:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43520 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753899AbXIXN1a (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:27:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:27:25 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: hch@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation Message-ID: <20070924132725.GA20116@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Miklos Szeredi , matthew@wil.cx, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070924123640.GA17409@infradead.org> <20070924125948.GM10625@parisc-linux.org> <20070924131047.GA19017@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 16 On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:18:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Or not support such a broken protocol at all. > > Wonder what people would say if we removed support for NFSv[23]. > > Just because a protocol does not support "perfect" UNIX semantics, it > doesn't mean it's broken. By that standard almost all network > filesystem protocols are severely broken. Well, they are broken by these and other standards. At least nfs and cifs maintainers do the workarounds for this brokeness where they belong. - 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/