Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Mon, 26 May 2003 21:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blake.timetraveller.org (blake.timetraveller.org [203.23.43.10]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4R4dJ2x008270 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 21:39:20 -0700 Received: from blake.timetraveller.org (blake.timetraveller.org [203.23.43.10]) by blake.timetraveller.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4R4dCAA018878 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 14:39:12 +1000 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 00:39:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Brockway To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Tomorrow In-Reply-To: <20030524095245.A24074@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1053694002.2887.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1053697162.21472.51.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20030523134438.GC30288@wotan.suse.de> <20030523150530.A31022@infradead.org> <20030524071709.GK27626@plato.local.lan> <20030524095245.A24074@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4151 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: robert@timetraveller.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 630 Lines: 21 On Sat, 24 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > seems like a sad thing to put such cruft into a decent filesystem just > > to support a broken legacy OS. > > I will make sure it'll be a config option. Loadable module I trust :) While we're on the XFS wishlist, I think that implementation of "immutable" and "append-only" attributes as seen in ext2/3 would be a great boon for the filesystem. Cheers, Rob (happy XFS user) -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert@timetraveller.org ICQ: 104781119 Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah