Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:09:17 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status) |
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Hi,
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:22:01 -0700, Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> said:
> I think we might be less far apart than we are aware of.
> Structured Storage is this Microsoft thing used for aggregating > objects into files. Things like word processors and spreadsheets > use it for storing complex documents/spreadsheets/other_objects with > lots of subcomponents in a single file. It is part of OLE.
Both Gnome and KDE are adopting MIME as their multi-document storage model. It already exists, it is already standardised, and there are plenty of libraries around which can deal with it.
> cp and tar can handle directories. Changing the utility programs to > handle directories that if read resolve to directory/default is a > lot less work than implementing the functional equivalent of > Structured Storage. Actually, I think they will simply never notice > that the directory can be read, and that will be acceptable.
But we _can't_ always do that. Linux in a network of other Unix machines cannot rely on everybody upgrading all of their tools! Just leave the semantics as they are and everybody will play well together.
--Stephen
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