linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] statx: Make windows attributes available for CIFS, NTFS and FAT to use

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Date:	Sun, 8 May 2016 01:39:21 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] statx: Make windows attributes available for CIFS,
 NTFS and FAT to use

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:58:14PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make windows attributes available for CIFS, NTFS and FAT to use in the
> statx struct.  The attribute flags map directly by value to those in the
> CIFS PDU flags.  Some of these bits can also be used by JFS, UFS and HPFS.

Err, no way.  Not that I disagree that some of these might be useful,
but we should define our own set of flags, which would include the
generic part of the IOC_GETFLAGS flags amd whatever we want to add to
them.  And we should probably go for 64-bit flags while we're at it.