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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes |
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Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:11:17 +0000 |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:08:39PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:27:22AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> > > Property lists *do* solve "everything", for the same reasons
> > > that hard drives solve "everything", even though the data that
> > > is stored is not specified in their documentation.
> >
> > Abstractly, all that attributes give you in the filesystem is a way to
> > bundle a bunch of names under a single common name such that a single
> > inode can be used to address them all. Directories already do that.
>
> That costs you atomicity, specifically atomic update.
(Yes, that really is the whole point. Think ACLs)
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Miles Bader, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Brian May, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, zander, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Mark A. Flacy, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Thomas Zander, 2004/01/06