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From: "John D. Heintz" <jheintz@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:21:56 -0500
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To: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
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Hi Hubert,

Hubert,

I agree with you, but I don't think our suggestions are exclusive.

An "ls" can return the contents of the directory as you suggested and a 
"cat" could return tab and newline separated content. I'm using the 
ReiserFS /etc/passwd example as a template.

What you suggested would be a good first step, I was just trying to 
intuitively make my point.

Thanks,
John


Hubert Chan wrote:

>XML namespaces seems like overkill to me, but I'll let someone more
>qualified say something more intelligent.  I just have one other
>comment.
>
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>
>>>>>>"John" == John D Heintz <jheintz@pobox.com> writes:
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>[...]
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>John> Other namespaces could be added to files/directories and I'd
>John> assume something like: `cat foo.txt/reiser4:namespaces` would list
>John> all the namespaces available for a particular file.  Something
>John> like:
>John> reiser4 http://www.namesys.com/v4
>John> streams http://www.evil-empire.com/streams
>John> snapcm http://www.snapcm.com/snapcm
>
>It's probably better to do:
>
># ls foo.txt/reiser4:namespaces
>reiser4
>streams
>snapcm
># cat foo.txt/reiser4:namespaces/reiser4
>http://www.namespaces.com/v4
>
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