Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:26 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:09:52AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> Maybe file/./attribute then. /. on a file is currently meaningless. >> That does not avoid the unpleasant fact that has been brought up by >> others (only to be ignored), that the directory syntax does not >> allow metadata on directories.
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:03:42AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > *Not* that I am endorsing the idea of being able to access metadata > via a standard pathname --- I continue to believe that named streams > are a bad idea that will be an attractive nuisance to application > developers, and if we must do them, then Solaris's openat(2) API is > the best way to proceed --- HOWEVER, if people are insistent on being > able to do this via standard pathnames, and not introducing a new > system call, I would suggest /|/ as the separator as the third least > worst option. Why?
I believe this debate is counterproductive while there are far more basic and serious issues with reiser4, such as architecture-neutrality of the interpretation of the on-disk format, still pending.
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