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SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status)
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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