Messages in this thread | | | From | root <> | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:29:35 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and loic |
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Your email was more technically articulate than mine as a response, except that I don't think we should make fun of podfuk.
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > Pavel Machek writes: > > [somebody, likely Hans Reiser] > > >> Jeremy wants in the FS what he can get with Microsoft streams and > >> Macintosh forks. That is, he wants to be able to name an object, and > >> read it, and get something, and he wants to be able to add something > >> that goes into that object, and stays with it when the object gets moved. > >> He wants this because he is a Samba author, and it will make his life a > >> lot easier to have it when Windows 2000 comes out. > > > > Oops. Should not he do it himself? This will make samba non-portable > > and what is worse samba will not run on ext2. > > There are several answers to that... > > Samba remains portable, minus Windows 2000 emulation. > It is easy to enhance ext2 in the same way. > If ext2 and BSD don't evolve, they die. Problem? > > >> Next files need to be able to inherit stat data, so that a file can > >> share its modification time with its parent directory, so that modifying > >> the file changes the mod time on the directory. > > > > Is sharing modtime this critical? I can see samba asking for both > > times and then just exporting the newer one :-). > > Not "both" but "all 2042". That would kill performance. > With tiny little (sub-)files, the stat data starts to take up > a significant chunk of space. > > There is also a correctness issue. This reminds me of the bugs > in Linux threads. We don't really define the larger container, > so the little bits (threads or sub-files) get out of sync. > > > This should be done in userspace. Editing /etc/passwd is certainly not > > performance critical so podfuk is just the right > > answer. (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html). > > I hope you realize that "podfuk" will not be very successful in the US. > The sound of "podfuk" brings to mind sexual activity with vegatables. > Businesses in the US are very concerned about sexual harassment lawsuits.
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