From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Multiple data streams...
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:18:22 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030402191822.A5875@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304022240.57346.russell@coker.com.au>
Hello!
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:40:57PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> The Linux API does not support multiple data streams. Support for extended
> attributes has recently been added, this will do most things that you might
> want to do with multiple streams and does it in a standard way that is
> supported.
Current API in the form I saw, greatly limits its usage.
E.g. get_attribute(name) kind of function can only return whole attribute
at a time. Also current ext3 realisation limits attributes size to be
not bigger than one block. I have not looked at XFS realisation yet.
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-02 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-02 9:28 Multiple data streams Anders Widman
2003-04-02 9:47 ` Anders Widman
2003-04-02 16:43 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 16:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-02 12:40 ` Russell Coker
2003-04-02 13:08 ` Anders Widman
2003-04-02 21:32 ` Russell Coker
2003-04-03 19:00 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 19:57 ` Russell Coker
2003-04-03 21:53 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-02 15:18 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2003-04-02 15:30 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-04-02 16:12 ` Jeff Mahoney
2003-04-02 16:53 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-02 17:07 ` Chris Mason
2003-04-02 17:13 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-04-03 18:37 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 19:02 ` Chris Mason
2003-04-03 19:50 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 20:09 ` Chris Mason
2003-04-04 7:41 ` Nikita Danilov
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