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From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:26:42 +1000
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David Masover wrote:

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>Lincoln Dale wrote:
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>>this is the WHOLE point of standardization .. i don't think its that
>>Reiser4's EAs offer any more or less capabilities than standard EAs -
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>They do.  Reiser4's EAs can look like any other object -- files,
>folders, symlinks, whatever.  This is important, especially for
>transparency.
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it was accepted not so long ago that 'file-as-directory' and 'EA' are 
two different things, predominantly because existing tools and apps 
won't necessarily "do the right thing<tm>".

this has been discussed to death previously.  oh what a surprise.  
http://lwn.net/Articles/100271/


cheers,

lincoln.


cheers,

lincoln.