From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Narcoleptic Electron <narcoleptic_electron@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:31:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6BADF0.4020205@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030919225110.89276.qmail@web60006.mail.yahoo.com>
Narcoleptic Electron wrote:
>There is no reason why an attribute directory couldn't itself have an attribute directory. It is just another directory. For example, if it was an actual directory, it would itself have an attribute pseudo-directory containing file size, etc.
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>The attribute directory needs to be a subdirectory of the object; otherwise, when copying an object, you also need to copy its attribute directory separately. Very awkward.
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>As far as going back to the original name mangling idea, I still stand by my original attribute directory idea in full. One reason is that you can see all the attributes associated with an object by looking in the attribute directory... you can't do this with the original name mangling approach. See my original emails for more points in favour.
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>And I also still stand behind the name "-" for the attribute directory. ;-) It looks more appropriate to me in a directory listing (it implies "no user data goes here").
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I want to use - for set subtraction (aka NOT). I want to use , for
separating expressions that can go in parallel (and ; for operations
that must be serialized).
My mind is not made up as to which to use for the attribute directory name.
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-20 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 15:14 Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-11 15:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-13 23:59 ` Carrying Attributes too Far (was Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion) Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 1:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-14 3:46 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 3:53 ` Carrying Attributes too Far Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 3:39 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-16 19:15 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 17:14 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 18:08 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 20:16 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 20:31 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 21:44 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 22:00 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 22:28 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 22:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 23:06 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 23:17 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:23 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:28 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-19 0:29 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:28 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:46 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-19 1:45 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 2:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 4:40 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 8:42 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 13:27 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:13 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 15:35 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:48 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 13:20 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 13:46 ` Bennett Todd
2003-09-19 19:31 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 22:51 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-20 1:31 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2003-09-22 15:53 ` Attribute Directory Name (Was: Carrying Attributes too Far) Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 20:02 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 22:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-22 13:28 ` Carrying Attributes too Far lrc1
2003-09-22 22:50 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-23 1:21 ` lrc1
2003-09-23 22:48 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-24 16:57 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 9:35 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-24 17:52 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 19:37 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-25 3:40 ` Hans Reiser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-04 5:58 lrc1
2003-10-04 18:17 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-10-04 20:10 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-03 19:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05 0:30 ` lrc1
2003-12-05 5:27 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-05 12:38 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 23:33 ` lrc1
2003-12-07 2:48 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 17:08 ` Hans Reiser
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