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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, lincoln. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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