linux-kernel - Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux

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Date:	Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:57:35 +0600
From:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, david@...ar.dk,
	greg@...ah.com, lennart@...ttering.net, harald@...hat.com
Subject: Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux

07.10.2011 19:40, Alan Cox пишет:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:09:16 +0200
> Bastien ROUCARIES<roucaries.bastien@...il.com>  wrote:
>
>> For fat a special xattr for root inode ?
>
> If it's as Kay says a specific magic part of the directory and we need
> this just as a fixup for FAT and NTFS then probably an ioctl on it will
> do the job nicely. Sometimes stretching existing API's in semi-sane ways
> actually gets to produce worse special cases (like tar restoring the
> volume label by accident depending upon its settings)

I'd say that we also need to consider EXFAT which is available only for 
FUSE, and the fact that the FUSE-based NTFS driver has more features 
than the kernel driver. And, frankly speaking, I don't think that FAT 
belongs to the kernel at all. So any proposed solution has to be 
extensible enough to also cover FUSE.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

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