Re: smbfs-mount flags

2000-08-06 Thread Urban Widmark
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: At least with ncpfs there is problem that some of mount options are parsed completely in userspace (passwd,ipserver), some are passed to mountpoint with ioctl (ttl,volume,codepage), some are mapped into VFS flags (ro,rw,noatime,...), some are ignored

Re: Tailmerging for Ext2

2000-08-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander Viro wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: Stephen asked me some sharp questions about how this would work, and after I answered them to his satisfaction he asked me if I would have time to implement this feature. I said yes, and went on to write an initial

Re: Tailmerging for Ext2

2000-08-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Post your document on the reiserfs mailing list when you finish it, the ReiserFS team will enjoy reading it. Hans Daniel Phillips wrote: Alexander Viro wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:19:46PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: Erm?

Re: Virtual files

2000-08-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
Hans Reiser wrote: I am just coming into the middle of this, so forgive me, but why are you implementing this above the filesystem layer? It seems like virtual files should be plugins that the filesystem calls while resolving its lookups and finding links to the plugin. This means that