Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:52:21 -0400 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: multi-part files again -- what can we do to allow experimentation |
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If we delivered an experimental patch for 2.2.16, would people be willing to try it out?
Not on production systems, of course...
-M
Jason Venner wrote: > > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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