Re: A Plumberâs Wish List for Linux

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Oct 07 2011 - 12:07:40 EST


On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:38:20 BST, Alan Cox said:

> > What do you mean would be ugly?
>
> I have an ext4fs. It supports every possible file name allowed by POSIX
> and SuS. What name are you going to use for your 'hidden directory' that
> won't clash with a real file ?

ext4 could always use an attribute bit for that. Not that *that* solution is all that
much prettier, since you can't use it for filesystems that don't have attribute bits.

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