> > > > Hmm. open_deleted_file() will still need to get a directory... so it
> > > > will still need a path. Perhaps open("/foo/bar/mnt", O_DELETED) would
> > > > be acceptable interface?
> > >
> > > ...and what's the big plan to make this work on anything other than ext4 and btrfs?
> >
> > Deleted but open files are from original unix, so it should work on
> > anything unixy (minix, ext, ext2, ...).
>
> minix, ext, ext2... are not under active development and haven't been
> for more than a decade.
>
> Take a look at how many actively used filesystems out there that have
> some variant of sillyrename(), and explain what you want to do in those
> cases.
Well. Yes, there are non-unix filesystems around. You have to deal
with silly files on them, and this will not be different.
Pavel
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