Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:40:27 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux |
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:09:16 +0200 Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.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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