From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759078AbXIXM77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756415AbXIXM7v (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:51 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:45326 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757411AbXIXM7u (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:59:48 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: hch@infradead.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation Message-ID: <20070924125948.GM10625@parisc-linux.org> References: <20070924123640.GA17409@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > and if that means adding silly rename support so be it. > > That's what is done currently. > > But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are > open files within an otherwise empty directory. > > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty. Only sillyrename files with nlink > 1? I don't see how attributes can change anything for a deleted file. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."