linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:49:31 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call

One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Hmmm... Interesting question.  Probably should.  But you could be insane and
> > RAID an nbd and a local disk.  Further, does NFS over a loopback device to
> > nfsd on the same machine qualify as root?  What if that's exposing a local fs
> > on NBD?  Perhaps I should drop 'REMOTE' for now.  It sounds like something
> > that a GUI filemanager might find interesting, though.
> 
> GUI file managers already try and guess some of this in order to decide
> whether to display icons off remote file systems.
> 
> You could be insane but it's always going to be a hint and nothing more
> and if it can't be perfect then that just goes in the notes in the manual
> page.

I've dropped REMOTE, FABRICATED, KERNEL_API, NONUNIX_OWNERSHIP, HAS_ACL and
UNLISTED_DENTS for now.  I'm keeping AUTOMOUNT as that seems fairly
straightforward - though I'm sure we can find someone to disagree! ;-)

David