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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

  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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