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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes


From: Thomas Zander
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:03:14 +0100
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On Monday 05 January 2004 20:27, Tom Lord wrote:
>   > > They are
>     >> an example of the "property lists solve _everything_!" class of
>     >> design errors.
>
>     > It is fairly obvious that you can build that on top of posix extended
>     > attributes.
>
> You can, sure -- but with no greater difficulty or loss of generality
> than you could build isomorphic functionality on top of ordinary
> directories (sans extended attributes).

You are right, and (apart for ACLs) the only way this stuff is going to be 
worth more then a directory based proposal is if these things will be 
backup-up, shipped and, indeed, revision managed in an atomic operation.

- -- 
Thomas Zander
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