Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status) | Date | Wed, 02 Sep 1998 22:22:43 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199809030216.MAA11181@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch writes : +----- | OK, fine. So if the metadata requirements are demanding, as you | indicate, then just put the different streams into separate files. The | FS has good code to do all this, why do it again? +--->8
Again: because you have to locate all these chunks to move the file to another system. Counterintuitive. (And I have to do the support after some luser does this and then can't figure out why their file is screwed up :-)
-- 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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