Re: Attempt at "stat light" implementation

[Jeff Garzik]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Once you have fine-grained selection of stat fields - it's natural to
> ask why not allow _additional_ stat fields in an future-extensible
> fashion?  A few things would be handy sometimes, such as inode
> generation number, modification generation number (to detect changes
> across reboots), and extra flags indicating COW or other properties.

That's quite an interesting thought...  until you run out of flags, the 
stat structure becomes a bit more flexible.

	Jeff



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