From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Make file creation time, i_version and i_generation available by xattrs Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:05 -0400 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 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 To: Steve French Return-path: 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.