Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:22:55 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. |
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On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:49:58AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > chflags(name, level, old, new) where level being either FL_VFS or > > > FL_EXT2 or FL_UFS, etc. IOW, the scheme similar to setsockopt(). > > > > Um, might there be a VFS already? As in "mount -t vfs..."? > > So they should make their namespace (if any) FL_V_WE_ARE_DUMB_POSERS_FS. > And be roundly LARTed for letting marketdroids invent 'cute' names.
Heh. I know of a VFS. Acorn had a Video FS in, um, 1985. This is the format the Domesday laserdiscs were written in. And I should be reunited with my player in about 3 weeks time :-) This will be an adventure.
> > There are already at least 3 XFS filesystems. FL_GENERIC is > > less likely to be a filesystem name.
I'm aware of three products called XFS, not three filesystems. But it's not a name, it's a macro which expands to a number, so it's merely a political issue.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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