On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:37:54PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > The traditional unix file systems don't contain "is-hidden" metadata, > but some commonly used ones do. What possible bad can come out of > letting applications access that information efficiently if they want. The bad thing that happens is that it will bloat the kernel with useless crap. And a use case of "make graphical directly listings on foreign filesystems look a little less cluttered" is not enough to add a lot of code and new interfaces we'll have to maintain forever. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
