Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you > > really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible with > > windows and b) so that you don't kill the hardware. > > VFAT is plenty good at killing hardware. It's a terrible filesystem for > flash cards (if th

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:46:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you > really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible with > windows and b) so that you don't kill the hardware. VFAT is plenty good at killing hardware. It's

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-22 Thread roucaries bastien
On 8/22/05, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > > This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. > > > > Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane > > filesystems linux supports. > > Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card,

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. > > Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane > filesystems linux supports. Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible wi

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-20 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:52:23PM +0900, Hiroyuki Machida wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote: > >>This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. > > > > > >Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-18 Thread Hiroyuki Machida
I'm trying to explain background Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote: This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane filesystems linux supports. I woul

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote: > > This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane filesystems linux supports. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

[PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-16 Thread Machida, Hiroyuki
This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. I made a couple of changes from previous revision, according feedbacks on LKML. - clean up - restrict file attribute operations to prevent attribute lose at runtime. - added condition checking to special files like device files an