... infradead.org> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100 > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > The early LFS work that Linux uses ... according to the standards and other systems. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 27 2007 - 10:19

... :13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 11:48 schrieb Alan Cox: > > What I don't understand is the tie between Linux having such streams ... from the view of clients but not from the unix fs internal view. Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 07:01

... from a namespace we are not in, which wouldn't have come out right before either) Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> (but still NAK on the getcwd change) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line " ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Apr 20 2007 - 05:34

... object of type off_t. We should therefore transition to the proper error return code Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> diff -u --new-file --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude --recursive linux.vanilla-2.6. ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 27 2007 - 09:29

... G. Davis" > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Its a good fix for now and I doubt any real world user has that complex a ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Oct 30 2007 - 11:35

... :53 -0400 "Bob Copeland" wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > What does the replaytv byteswap - the entire blocks or some fields ? > ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Apr 14 2008 - 13:22

... from fs people, and I suspect in many cases the BKL isn't needed at all. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c index bbfa0e2..d0d8cf4 100644 --- a/ ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - May 22 2008 - 18:15

hfsplus: O_LARGEFILE checking is missing From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Closes #8490 --- fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff -- ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 23 2008 - 08:49

Sorry wrong version. Correct one attached hfsplus: O_LARGEFILE checking is missing From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Closes #8490 --- fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 23 2008 - 09:13

... :38:14 -0600 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:38:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > It doesn't require the system to detect it, only mandate what to return > > > if it does ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Oct 28 2007 - 19:44

... Jan 2008 15:10:34 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008 14:38:57 Alan Cox wrote: > > > Also worse really fixing it would be a major change to the VFS > > > because of the ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Jan 28 2008 - 10:50

... -0600 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Hmm? > > > > > > So that find_conflict doesn't end up in the first column, which causes > > > diff ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - May 6 2008 - 12:45

... 't really help because you don't want extensions at the path top.=20 Another interesting question btw with substreams of a file is what the semantics of fchown, fstat, fchmod, fchdir etc are, or of mounting a file over a substream. Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 1 2004 - 11:13

... . inotify done right is useful here as well as in a lot of other desktop cases where dnotify doesn't really scale. Its enough to let me - Find the new file - Virus scan it - Classify its possible type heirarchies - Index it Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 05:50

... to also make it useful to real users and proved its a good idea despite the past evidence from things like MacOS Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel. ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 11:36

... nobody has asked for kernel support that I know of. I asked our desktop people. They want something like inotify because dontify doesn't cut it. They have zero interest in the multiple streams and hiding icons in streams type stuff. Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 14:46

... ripped it off) People forget the worlds of SYS$QIO, RMS, FCB's and the like Its worked remarkably well for a very very long time, and most of the nasties have come from people trying to break that model or not understanding it. Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 18:48

... we don't tag everywhere onto files that would be a godsend on the desktop providing they moved with the file on rename) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger. ...

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 1 2004 - 08:10

... the feature for every other platform which would mean vendor patches which would essentially mean it wouldn't happen. I know I rarely agree with Hans but I think he's right on this one, it has to work with the existing open() API. Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 1 2004 - 07:49

... or "find" or "Search".. You > would have to open the files in an archive-supporting application > such as mc. And would you rather that logic was running swappable in shared library space or privileged and unswappable in kernel ? Alan

linux-fsdevel - Alan Cox - Sep 2 2004 - 14:55