Yes it's a trivial change. I was thinking of adding a getdirentries
call which does exactly what Glibc's does, so that the Glibc seek and
entry rewriting overhead are avoided.
> Ext2 has been storing this information since Linux 2.2, so most
> filesystems in the field have this information;
:-( No they don't. Unless you changed it very recently, mke2fs doesn't
turn on the feature bit. In fact I had to modify mke2fs to turn it on
as there's no option...
> it's just that I never found any time to add support into the VFS
> layer during the 2.3 development cycle. The main problem at this
> point is the 2.3 feature freeze.
It would be quite naughty to slip it in at this stage.
-- Jamie
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