Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754238Ab0F1TVT (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:19 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50712 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751963Ab0F1TVS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:05 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steve French Cc: Jeremy Allison , David Howells , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs Message-ID: <20100628192105.GA23863@infradead.org> References: <20100628162626.6026.26679.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20100628164854.GA9979@samba1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 14 On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > That sounds better but it hits the fs, vfs and libc > and seems like libc is near impossible to get changes into. If you do it properly it's not hard to get changes into libc. Let's do it properly instead of adding hacks like that. Synthetic xattrs causes much more problems than they solve. -- 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/