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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:51:25AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:21:35PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>
> > Space efficiency & clean naming; separation from directories made
> > by the user.
>
> Forks are not cleaner that directories here - only different.
>
> I don't see any advantage in blah::$DATA over blah/DATA myself.

You are doing a syntax assumption, and seem to be only discussing
syntax. I'm talking about a set of semantics - in this case the fact
that (a) opening the file will give the normal data fork, and (b) you
can't just rename something out of a fork, and (c) you get a clear
distinction from user-created directories.

I don't think this overcome the disadvantages of using forks to store
critical application data; however, it should be part of the
considerations.

Eivind.


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