Return-Path: Message-ID: <4C5311F4.2050100@psu.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:55:00 -0400 From: Phil Pishioneri To: Trond Myklebust CC: Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE, Jeremy Allison , Linus Torvalds , David Howells , Jan Engelhardt , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] References: <20100715021712.5544.44845.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <30448.1279800887@redhat.com> <20100722162712.GB10352@jeremy-laptop> <1279817930.3621.14.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20100722180204.GA32008@samba1> <1279825160.3621.71.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1279825160.3621.71.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 List-ID: On 7/22/10 2:59 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The fact remains that most of us would be hard pressed to name an > application Microsoft Office? > that requires you to share the same dataset to both > Windows/CIFS and posix NFS clients. NFS client: Mac OS X (NFSv3, since v4 on it is still alpha *cough*). > tends to discourage mixing the two environments. Or is "discourage" not strong enough term to describe that we shouldn't be doing this? -Phil