On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Hans Reiser wrote:
Hi Hans,
> Reiserfs is a socially inclusive project, and if someone wants a field
> added, they should just talk to us.
>
> There is a reason why our motto is "It takes more than a license to
> make source code open."
Agreed, and thanks.
> Particularly, if you want an optional field added, talk to us, dynamic
> space allocation is a strength of our approach, and putting support
> for you in a next major version of reiserfs is something we will do if
> you send me an email/URL that convinces me your work is valuable (I am
> ignorant of it, educate me.)
Ah, I wasn't aware that was possible. I had assumed that your
stat_data was rather fixed in size.
That being the case, I would like:
__u32 flags; /* ext2 compatible file flags */
__u32 cap_allowed; /* allowed capabilities */
__u32 cap_forced; /* forced capabilities */
If you can do that without breaking the disk format, then it
can wait for 2.5, otherwise I think it would make sense for
them to appear in 2.3 (assuming that the format has already
changed for the 2.3 port?).
Matthew, Ted - would I be stepping on anyone's toes if I
implemented the VFS extended flag handling now and tried to
get it pushed in for 2.4?
Matthew.
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