From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20122 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2002 00:12:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20101 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 00:12:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.163.212.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 00:12:48 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D685357E; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9H0CkA28740; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:12:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200210170012.g9H0CkA28740@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andi Kleen Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] pathconf and XFS/Reiserfs link count In-Reply-To: Andi Kleen's message of , 17 October 2002 01:35:45 +0200 X-Zippy-Says: Is there something I should be DOING with a GLAZED DONUT?? X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 > How about moving the list to a file in /etc ? Someone would have to maintain that too. > The current version doesn't even cover all file systems included in > linux 2.4 that support hardlinks and for each new file system it'll need a > new patch too. And linux has plenty of new file systems in development. I think the current situation is utterly disgusting. The only thing that makes any kind of sense to me is direct kernel support, and I can't fathom why it wasn't done that way a long time ago.