From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
To: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:55:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41354818.6020307@slaphack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <185110393004-BeMail@cr593174-a>
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Alexander G. M. Smith wrote:
[...]
| A file type would tell us that a file is a text file and can be opened
| by certain applications (text/e-mail can be opened by e-mail reader,
| text editor, etc) and have other properties (lists of standard
| attributes, default icon). A plugin ID says that the file can use text
| related plugins (like a word count, or XML structure as a subdirectory).
|
| In both cases there is a global repository (I assume) that associates
| the file type or plugin ID with a list of things about it.
I'm not sure how automatic this is. Standard things like directories,
block devices, files, symlinks, and so on are all separate plugins.
Other than that, it doesn't seem so automatic. I have to explicitly
turn on encryption, but I can do it to any kind of file or directory --
assuming the cryptocompress plugin worked yet.
[...]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 20:21 silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Hans Reiser
2004-08-31 0:05 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2004-08-31 6:43 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-01 3:13 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2004-09-01 3:55 ` David Masover [this message]
2004-09-01 8:07 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-01 17:19 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-31 13:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-31 13:36 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-02 11:59 ` Mikaël Cluseau
2004-09-02 13:32 ` mjt
2004-09-07 20:16 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-07 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-08 9:14 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-07 21:05 ` William Stearns
2004-09-07 22:09 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-09-09 9:03 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat " Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-09 17:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 18:09 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-09 19:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 20:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 0:57 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 1:15 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 5:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 5:53 ` viro
2004-09-10 6:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:05 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:30 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 16:49 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-10 17:23 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:21 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:33 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:46 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 8:18 ` viro
2004-09-10 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 17:48 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 13:08 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-10 3:22 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-12 20:43 ` Davide Inglima
2004-09-10 9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-10 17:42 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] ` <20040910201738.GB8698@eskimo.com>
2004-09-14 8:39 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-31 14:09 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what " Mike Waychison
2004-08-31 18:35 ` Hubert Chan
2004-08-31 17:55 ` V13
2004-08-31 18:17 ` Spam
2004-08-31 18:17 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:08 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-31 19:38 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:38 ` Spam
2004-09-01 3:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-09-01 3:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-09-01 13:18 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-08-31 19:35 ` V13
2004-08-31 20:22 ` Hubert Chan
2004-08-31 20:31 ` Spam
2004-08-31 21:58 ` Hubert Chan
2004-08-31 22:15 ` Spam
2004-08-31 22:46 ` Hubert Chan
2004-08-31 18:51 ` Hubert Chan
2004-08-31 19:49 ` Chris Dawes
2004-09-01 6:03 ` Hans Reiser
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