On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 gshekar@in.ibm.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I want to store some specific information in the inode[for identifying
>> special files], is it possible to store in an inode without modifying the
>> kernel(patch). Could you please tell me about any field in the inode that
>> can be used for this purpose
>>
>> thanks
>> girish
>
>what you want has a clever name "Extended Inode Attributes" and many
>people are asking for it, many people are talking about it and many people
>know that there is no such thing.
If the filesystem is ext2, how about an extension to the ACL list? I don't
think the field containing the ACL type is saturated yet.
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