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SubjectRe: multi-part files again -- what can we do to allow experimentation
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
>
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