Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:54:22 -0400 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs? |
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Nate Diller wrote: > On 8/1/06, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote: >> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>> I could be entirely wrong, though. I speak for neither >> Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML. Talk amongst yourselves... > > i should clarify things a bit here. yes, hans' goal is for there to > be no difference between the "xattr" namespace and the "readdir" one. > unfortunately, this is not feasible with the current VFS, and some > major work would have to be done to enable this without some > pathological cases cropping up. some very smart people think that it > cannot be done at all.
But an xattr interface should work just fine, even if the rest of the system is inaccessible (no readdir interface) -- preventing all these pathological problems, except the one where Hans implements it the way I'm thinking, and kernel people hate it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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