linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?

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Message-ID: <20100626093544.GA27715@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:35:44 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:53:32PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> 
> Nick Piggin:
> > Is there anything more we should add here? Samba wants a capabilities
> > field, with things like sparse files, quotas, compression, encryption,
> > case preserving/sensitive.
> 
> How about the max link count?
> There was a post in last December.
> See <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126008640210762&w=2> and its
> thread in detail.

That's really job for a pathconf system call that allows quering random
paramters.

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