From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
To: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Reiserfs-List@namesys.com
Subject: Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:54:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D021EE.1040907@slaphack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608011226w328d809fy9d50aa785ad93536@mail.gmail.com>
Nate Diller wrote:
> On 8/1/06, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
>> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>> I could be entirely wrong, though. I speak for neither
>> Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML. Talk amongst yourselves...
>
> i should clarify things a bit here. yes, hans' goal is for there to
> be no difference between the "xattr" namespace and the "readdir" one.
> unfortunately, this is not feasible with the current VFS, and some
> major work would have to be done to enable this without some
> pathological cases cropping up. some very smart people think that it
> cannot be done at all.
But an xattr interface should work just fine, even if the rest of the
system is inaccessible (no readdir interface) -- preventing all these
pathological problems, except the one where Hans implements it the way
I'm thinking, and kernel people hate it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-02 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 9:26 reiser4: maybe just fix bugs? Denis Vlasenko
2006-07-31 12:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-31 16:17 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-31 20:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-01 15:22 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-01 2:30 ` Hans Reiser
2006-08-01 10:37 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-01 13:59 ` Scott J. Harmon
2006-08-02 6:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-02 19:53 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-01 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 2:18 ` Hans Reiser
2006-08-01 11:24 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-08-01 14:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 15:07 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-08-01 16:55 ` David Masover
2006-08-01 19:26 ` Nate Diller
2006-08-02 3:54 ` David Masover [this message]
2006-08-03 7:46 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-04 21:09 ` David Masover
2006-08-01 19:14 ` Nate Diller
2006-08-01 11:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-01 11:52 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-01 14:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
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