Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

You don't need extended attributes, you just needs files and 
directories....  www.namesys.com/v4.html says more.

Hans

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

>Previously Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>It is true that there are many features, such as an automatic text 
>>indexer, that belong in user space, but the basic indexes (aka 
>>directories) and index traversal code belong in the kernel.
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>Sure, but if you have a kernel which supports arbitraty extended
>attributes for files you don't need much more kernel support. You
>can implement things like metadata for files and query languages on
>top of that in userspace. If you modify applications to (also) put some
>metadata (meta tags from html pages, document properties from office
>documents, etc.) in those extended attributes you might already be where
>microsoft is going.
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>You only would need some kernel interaction if you want to keep an
>updated index of file contents (dnotify for a while filesystem and
>reindexing whole files instead of blocks doesn't sound very attractive).
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>Wichert.
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Hans