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

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call
Date 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
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One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.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

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[RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 15:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2016-11-17 21:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 03:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> - 2016-11-18 05:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:40 +0100
  [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-17 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 00:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-19 00:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-19 23:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 11:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 15:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-22 22:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-21 15:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-21 21:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> - 2016-11-18 18:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 19:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-19 11:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 13:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 10:30 +0100

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