Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce filesystem type tracking

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 09:04:06AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 09:51:10PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I'm not sure what replying to an 18 year old thread that's been paged
> > out of everyones memory is supposed to intend?
> 
> I'm so confused. This showed up top of the batch of mails from the
> mailing list for me locally yesterday.

Ok, I figured it out...

  David Timber (Feb 2026, Mozilla Thunderbird) — exfat: add fallocate support:
  In-Reply-To: <>
  References: <>

  Tom Spink (May 2008, git-send-email 1.5.4.3) — [RFC PATCH] Introduce filesystem type tracking:
  In-Reply-To: <>
  References: <>

  Dmitri Monakhov (Oct 2008, git-send-email 1.5.4.3) — [PATCH] kill suid bit only for regular files:
  In-Reply-To: <>
  References: <>

  NeilBrown (Feb 2025) — Re: [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir...:
  References: <>, <CAH2r5mvXVc4=ZwvfwZtVaVM88+3cvUtjz-71af_Q+Jmbdst2_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

All these mails have a broken header and set In-Reply-To: to <>:

  In-Reply-To: <>

So all of these messages share a single bogus parent with the empty
message ID <> and then Neomutt groups them together which makes it look
like a really old thread got new replies...