Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:46:23 +0200 | Subject | Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux |
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[]sorry, need to resend. I tried to reply with the cell phone but it bounces]
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:38, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:28:46 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > >> What do you mean would be ugly? > > I have an ext4fs. It supports every possible file name allowed by POSIX > and SuS. What name are you going to use for your 'hidden directory' that > won't clash with a real file ?
Ah, no. The label on FAT (similar on NTFS) are 'magic entries' in the root dir list, not a real file in the root dir.
We need kernel support for changing a mounted fs, because, unlike ext4, the blocks containing the strings are inside the fs, which the kernel might change any time.
Kay
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