Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:25:22 +0200 | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux | From | (Kristian Koehntopp) |
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In netuse.lists.linux-kernel you write: >The question then becomes whether to also have per-file preference attributes >in every file a user touches, or to have some kind of database per user with >all their file preferences in it (with all the associated difficulties of >keeping it in sync, identifying files, etc, etc).
This is not a question. The first "solution" is a system administrators nightmare. Think new users, think deleted users, think backups, think restores. It hurts.
Kristian
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