From: Phil Pishioneri Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:55:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4C5311F4.2050100@psu.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from f05s03.cac.psu.edu ([128.118.141.46]:51438 "EHLO f05n03.cac.psu.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754220Ab0G3UFS (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:05:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1279825160.3621.71.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org 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