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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes
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Jan Hudec |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:23:48 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:27:22 -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>
>
> > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
>
> >> Are you sure? Extended attributes have no particular
> >> semantics. There's no rule to say when they should be copied
> >> and when not, when they should modified and when not. 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).
That's basicaly what reiser4 filesystem is going to do with it.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Chris Mason, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Chris Mason, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- 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, 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 <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Miles Bader, 2004/01/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- [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