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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:07:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [for-linus][PATCH 1/3] eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and
 directories all be the same
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, 
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, 
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
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Hi Steven.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 7:08=E2=80=AFPM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org=
> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:07:31 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > Actually, inodes isn't the biggest issue of tar, as tar *is* a common
> > operation on tracefs.
>
> Correction. tar would be a common operation if it worked ;-)

What would be needed to fix that?  I regularly use tar on other virtual
file systems (e.g. /sys/firmware/devicetree/), which works fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t=
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