Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:29:50 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v3 0/2] vfs / btrfs: add support for ustat() |
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 07:58:56PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Christoph had noted that this seemed associated to the problem > that the btrfs uses different assignments for st_dev than s_dev, > but much as I'd like to see that changed based on discussions so > far its unclear if this is going to be possible unless strong > commitment is reached.
Explain, please. Whose commitment and commitment to what, exactly? Having different ->st_dev values for different files on the same fs is a bloody bad idea; why does btrfs do that at all? If nothing else, it breaks the usual "are those two files on the same fs?" tests...
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