Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:05:14 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 17:48 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > What you're neglecting is that there is a LARGE class of metadata where > the important thing is that you store them; if you don't know what they > are you merely ignore them and keep them as-is. > > There is no place for those in the current design.
That's what the user namespace is for -- the kernel has no interest in its contents, it just stores it as-is for apps that do.
-- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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