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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes
From: |
Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:23:43 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> > While the link-breaking behavior is useful to Arch, I'm tempted to
> > call it a bug. My expectation of an editor is that it doesn't change
> > the properties of the file (e.g ctime, permissions, # of links) -- it
> > just changes its contents (and atime/mtime).
> This `bug' is so ingrained into common tools,
Basically because it has a sound basis in physical reality.
Classical unix filesystem semantics manage to surface a pretty
abstractly clean model for a physically constrained process
(filesystem implementation on a very broad class of tertiary storage
devices). The next step up, to a fully transactional file system, is
a _huge_ step.
It's not very surprising -- the semantics come out of an
implementation process which amounts to "Ok, like multics, except with
a relentless focus on `what is that we can quickly (and actually)
implement?'."
Yes, it's vague -- but it's also true.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Chris Mason, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Thomas Zander, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Miles Bader, 2004/01/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes,
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Brian May, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Charles Duffy, 2004/01/05