linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2]

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Message-Id: <201006301936.03804.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:36:03 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	smfrench@...il.com, mcao@...ibm.com,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, sjayaraman@...e.de,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2]

On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Jeff Layton wrote:
> In the event that we approach running out of flags, we could even use
> the last flag as a "HAS_FLAGS2" flag, to add a new flags field at the
> end. Ugly, but it would avoid the need for a new syscall. We can kick
> that potential problem down the road though. With 64 flags to play
> with, it likely won't be a problem for a while.

Along the lines of what Christoph argued, we can also just use the
new syscall when that happens.

	Arnd
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