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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes


From: 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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