Re: Implementing an attribute directory.

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Peter van Hardenberg wrote:

>We have an implementation plan for the attribute plugin. We plan to base it 
>around the plugin.c so that it can be available for all files, directory or 
>otherwise.
>
>Every file which has a pseudo will gain a new user-attributes pseudofile. This 
>pseudofile will essentially wrap a standard directory. 
>
Usage examples please.

>In order to provide 
>support for this directory, this plugin will include a new field on the inode 
>which points to a standard dir_file.
>
>When a new file is created, this inode will be created as well, and when a 
>file is deleted, this one must be removed (with children) as well. Future 
>versions should provide the optimization of only creating the inode once it 
>becomes needed and otherwise simulating an empty directory.
>
>Namesys folks, does this seem like a good course of action?
>
>-pvh
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