Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751874Ab2HVGRz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:17:55 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:59075 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794Ab2HVGRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:17:54 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Bastien ROUCARIES Cc: Namjae Jeon , "J. Bruce Fields" , Al Viro , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors References: <1345282899-7534-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <20120818132524.GW23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87pq6op9zz.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20120820205231.GG5779@fieldses.org> <874nnwiw67.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87628bjvwb.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:17:52 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87628bjvwb.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (OGAWA Hirofumi's message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:14:28 +0900") Message-ID: <87y5l7ih67.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 23 OGAWA Hirofumi writes: >> I mean using a special value for this case, mark delete (using 0xe5 as >> first character) but put for instance creation month to be egal to 15. >> >> This entry will be therefore be keep and not overwritten by successive >> file creation. >> >> At least this solve the file deleted issue (not the rename issue unfortunatly) > > I assume you are saying to prevent creation somehow, not deletion. Yes, it > is possible though, it would give additional overhead and complexity to us. In short, it meant I think it is not so simple to do it. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- 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/