Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:47:49 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:16:46 -0700, Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> > said: > > > You might consider that storing dynamically allocated meta-data is > > much easier to add to reiserfs (we designed with it as a goal). > > I'd add here that in fact, reiserfs is a good reason NOT to implement > metadata. By making it so much more efficient to store > metainformation through hidden subdirectories, reiserfs allows the > whole thing to be implemented in user space. That by itself is a good > reason for not doing it in the kernel! > > --Stephen
I was going to respond to this, but then I realized I didn't have a solid definition of the desired semantics, which I would need before I could intelligently respond to the issue of whether namei() should be altered in its functionality.
Hans
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