On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:13:52AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > What is the issue with the xstat, new stat format stuff? Basically I have the > feeling that this is in discussion for at least 5 years or so and I always > wondered where it is stuck. I am not aware of any discussions of it recently, > but I may have overseen those. It's mostly because it turned on into an exercise of blatant overengineering. The primary need in the stat area is a few new fields, and the secondary interesting one is to allow the user to request only some field that it actually needs (i.e. statlite). But all the proposals included bullshit like variable length fields, xattrs and similar and thus were totally off the table. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
