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

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Message-ID: <20111007144027.3c785c76@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:40:27 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, david@...ar.dk, greg@...ah.com,
	lennart@...ttering.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	harald@...hat.com
Subject: Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux

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)

Alan
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