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SubjectRe: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?
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.
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