On 2012-04-27, at 7:13 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Have a look at fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h. There's a bunch of flags defined
> at the bottom of the file.
>
> Stuff like the "nodefrag", "nodump", and "prealloc" bits seem fairly
> generic - they are for indicating that files are to be avoided for
> defrag
On 2012-04-26, at 7:06 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>>
>> Implement a pair of new system calls to provide extended and further
>> extensible stat functions.
>>
>> The second of the associated patches is the main patch that provides thes
On 2012-04-26, at 6:51 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:32:36PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>> I wonder if there's a way to make this explicit - or is it something that if
>> the bit isn't set, you can't use the value in st_blksize.
>> I wonder if this value always has to be no
On 2012-04-26, at 10:52, David Howells wrote:
> Steve French wrote:
>>
>> Both NFS and CIFS (and SMB2) can return inode numbers or equivalent unique
>> identifier, but in the case of CIFS some old servers don't support the calls
>> which return inode numbers (or don't return them for all file s
On 2012-04-24, at 4:29 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:06:12PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>> (11) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
>>granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].
>
> It looks like you're including this w
On 2012-04-19, at 8:06 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available,
> including file creation time, inode version and data version where available
> through the underlying filesystem.
>
> The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could
On 2012-04-19, at 8:05 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Implement a pair of new system calls to provide extended and further
> extensible stat functions.
Hallelujah for this. I've been waiting/wanting something like this
for ages already. Now if only we can get this landed before it
degrades into the
