Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux | Date | Wed, 02 Sep 1998 19:39:40 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199809022157.OAA04849@sun4.apsoft.com>, Perry Harrington writes: +----- | You would then include their inode lists in the inode list for the file | they are storing information for. You would arrange the inode lists so | that a read from the file would produce just the file, but you could | do some magic and read ALL the data from the file. +--->8
Ummm, no. The magic should be done by the programs that know about metadata: otherwise you're back to the problem of copy/mv/tar/etc. not working on those files. You can't provide transparent access to only the primary data without breaking those operations (or providing nasty Linux-specific versions --- then Witness help you if you untar on some other system or copy to NFS/AFS/Coda/etc.).
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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