From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Implementing an attribute directory. Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:47:05 -0800 Message-ID: <43817B79.6010707@namesys.com> References: <200511201317.12598.pvh@uvic.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200511201317.12598.pvh@uvic.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter van Hardenberg Cc: reiserfs-list@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 > > >