Messages in this thread | | | Subject | multi-part files again -- what can we do to allow experimentation | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:21:46 -0700 | From | Jason Venner <> |
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What is the minimal interface we can build into the kernel that will allow people to experiment with all the ways they would like to do it, so that we can harvest the resulting knowledge and build a sane/robust system to carry into the future with us?
We have" the EA crowd with the data attached to the inode with size limits (This seems to include acls) and if you think about it we have a whole set of attributes we carry around in the inode now (all the stat stuff etc) We have the arbitrary streams crowd. We have hybrids who want some parts of both.
There are people arguing about namespace portability across nfs implementations on different underlying file systems Implementations in the vfs layer Implementations in userspace only Some hybrids again. existing tool issues security stability data preservation
Can we come up with something that will let us play with all of the above to see what actually works well
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