From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Multiple data streams...
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:53:27 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E8CAD57.50800@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304040557.56832.russell@coker.com.au>
Russell Coker wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:00, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>
>>>OS/2 used EA's for icons and description text in 1992. There's no reason
>>>why EAs can't be used for this purpose today as well.
>>>
>>>
>>Implement inherited stat data, hidden directory entries, and files and
>>directories and you don't need EAs.... yes?
>>
>>
>
>That sounds like EAs the hard way...
>
>
>
It is the difference between architecting and incrementally evolving in
response to each separate feature request.
Sharing stat data and hiding directory entries are useful for a lot more
than streams.
Atomic transactions are also useful for a lot more than EAs.....
I work by carefully defining easily recombinable primitives. Others
work by asking what does Unix have and copying it.
This is why it took far longer for us in the beginning, and why over the
next 30 years we will develop faster than other filesystems. That is
why ext2 currently has more market share --- a lot of people benefited
from them getting something out quick that was usable...
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-03 21:53 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 [this message]
2003-04-02 15:18 ` Oleg Drokin
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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