Re: Your backup is unsafe!

Jochen Friedrich (jochen@scram.de)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:51:23 +0200 (CEST)


Hi,

> As much as I hate such 'solutions' - add an ioctl() for munge-changing.
> Yes, adding ioctls stinks. But it's less PITA then playing games with
> dcache and screwing VFS for the sake of braindead monstrosity.

Would it be possible to do this is a way as flexible as possible, so that
other fs with some strange features (like hpfs with its extended
attributes or ntfs with its ACLs) may benefit from this ioctl(), as well?

Cheers,
Jochen

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