Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:26:42 +1000 | From | Lincoln Dale <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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David Masover wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Lincoln Dale wrote: > >[...] > > > >>this is the WHOLE point of standardization .. i don't think its that >>Reiser4's EAs offer any more or less capabilities than standard EAs - >> >> > >They do. Reiser4's EAs can look like any other object -- files, >folders, symlinks, whatever. This is important, especially for >transparency. > > it was accepted not so long ago that 'file-as-directory' and 'EA' are two different things, predominantly because existing tools and apps won't necessarily "do the right thing<tm>".
this has been discussed to death previously. oh what a surprise. http://lwn.net/Articles/100271/
cheers,
lincoln.
cheers,
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