On Mon, 13 October 2008 13:39:21 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > Its only useless and bloat if you think the feature is useless, so we're > once again back to your preferences in applications. I'd like to think > that the opinions of others would be taken into consideration for this > too, and I and others would like this feature. It is a tradeoff. How urgent is the feature, how much bloat will it create, what's the mainenance load on people like Christoph. Since he is one of the _very_ few people who actually carry the maintenance load, I would take his advice rather seriously and try to convince him on technical grounds. > Unfortunately I don't have time myself atm to implement this, but I hope > someone else is interested in working on this. And this is a perfect example of how not to convince someone. Once you have the time you might want to look at lsattr/chattr. Until then, this discussion is a waste of readers time. Jörn -- Public Domain - Free as in Beer General Public - Free as in Speech BSD License - Free as in Enterprise Shared Source - Free as in "Work will make you..." -- 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