From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: [v4] reiser4 dream came true... in Solaris9. Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:30:47 +0400 Message-ID: <3F2E6007.9000902@namesys.com> References: <16174.6357.805212.892859@laputa.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <16174.6357.805212.892859@laputa.namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Reiserfs developers mail-list , Reiserfs mail-list Nikita Danilov wrote: >Solaris9 supports extended attributes accessible through usual file >system namespace. Support in cp, tap, cpio. > >http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0220/6m6nkorp9?a=view > >Nikita. > > > > What they did seems like what someone not really understanding what we are doing would copy from our implementation if some guy from marketing said that they needed it to compete with us. They don't really move attributes into the namespace. They access them with an API separate and additional to that used for files. The only thing they do get right is that they store them as files and directories. I bet that they don't have the underlying infrastructure needed for this to be efficient for small attributes though, and I bet the performance sucks. Sorry for my ungenerous comments. -- Hans