On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 gshekar@in.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to store some specific information in the inode[for identifying
> special files], is it possible to store in an inode without modifying the
> kernel(patch). Could you please tell me about any field in the inode that
> can be used for this purpose
>
> thanks
> girish
what you want has a clever name "Extended Inode Attributes" and many
people are asking for it, many people are talking about it and many people
know that there is no such thing.
Regards,
Tigran
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