Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:59:17 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right |
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You don't need extended attributes, you just needs files and directories.... www.namesys.com/v4.html says more.
Hans
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>Previously Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>It is true that there are many features, such as an automatic text >>indexer, that belong in user space, but the basic indexes (aka >>directories) and index traversal code belong in the kernel. >> >> > >Sure, but if you have a kernel which supports arbitraty extended >attributes for files you don't need much more kernel support. You >can implement things like metadata for files and query languages on >top of that in userspace. If you modify applications to (also) put some >metadata (meta tags from html pages, document properties from office >documents, etc.) in those extended attributes you might already be where >microsoft is going. > >You only would need some kernel interaction if you want to keep an >updated index of file contents (dnotify for a while filesystem and >reindexing whole files instead of blocks doesn't sound very attractive). > >Wichert. > > >
-- Hans
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