At 12:02 12/12/01, Hans Reiser wrote:
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
Both MacOS and as of recently Windows do this kind of stuff, too, and it
can't be long before Linux goes the same way, provided file systems
support the required features (i.e. EAs and/or named streams) so I
disagree with you this is only a compatibility thing. It might start out
as one but it will find real world applications very quickly...
I am not saying that the features of EAs are not useful, I am saying
that I want to choose them individually for particular files.
It could be so much better to have EDIBLE_PIZZA (example from previous
email) instead of just PIZZA, sigh.
I am not quite sure what you mean. Surely you can just have all features
available at all times/to all files and then you just use the ones you
want, just ignoring/not using the rest. Why do you see the need for
"selecting features of EAs individually for particular files"? It makes
sense when buying EDIBLE_PIZZA but I don't see how that can be transferred
onto files. After all I can just have all pizza ingredients and only put
the ones I want on the pizza just ignoring the others.
Inheriting stat data from the parent directory should be a feature
available not just for streams, but for all files that want it. Efficient
small file access to a 32 byte file should be a feature available to all
files, not just EAs. Not being listed in readdir should be a feature
available to all files, not just EAs. Constraining what is written to
them should be a feature available to all files, not just EAs, and
arbitrary plugin based constraints should be possible.
Is this more clear?
Yes it is, thanks. And yes it makes sense. But this is talking about files
as a whole and has nothing to do with EAs as such (but it would obviously
apply to EAs, too under your proposed API).
I will be looking forward to seeing this stuff implemented. (-:
Anton
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