From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: "Bodo Eggert" <7eggert@gmx.de>, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
"Jack Stone" <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:31:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706181406250.25913@blackbox.fnordora.org>
alan wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
>> alan <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The
>>> MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked
>>> filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea.
>>> (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with
>>> non-forked filesystems.)
>>
>> What's the conceptual difference between forks and extended user
>> attributes?
>
> Forks tend to contain more than just extended attributes. They contain
> all sorts of other meta-data including icons, descriptions, author
> information, copyright data, and whatever else can be shoveled into them
> by the author/user.
And that makes them different from extended attributes, how?
Both of these really are nothing but ad hocky syntactic sugar for
directories, sometimes combined with in-filesystem support for small
data items.
-hpa
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2007-06-18 20:54 ` Versioning file system Bodo Eggert
2007-06-18 21:08 ` alan
2007-06-18 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-18 21:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:10 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:26 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 22:26 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 21:24 ` Brad Boyer
2007-06-18 21:24 ` Brad Boyer
2007-06-19 3:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19 3:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-18 22:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:56 ` alan
2007-06-19 7:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-19 7:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:48 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 23:00 ` alan
2007-06-19 7:05 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-19 16:52 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-19 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 22:47 ` alan
2007-06-15 22:23 Jack Stone
2007-06-15 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 22:51 ` alan
2007-06-15 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 23:06 ` alan
2007-06-16 8:11 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 9:46 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 10:12 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 13:15 ` Mark Williamson
2007-06-16 19:57 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 16:49 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:03 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 19:38 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 21:25 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 20:39 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:43 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 22:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-17 2:18 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17 2:39 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17 22:11 ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 21:06 ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 11:42 ` Graham Murray
2007-06-16 14:53 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-16 14:53 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 9:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-18 9:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-18 9:54 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 10:13 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 10:13 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 14:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 16:16 ` alan
2007-06-18 17:29 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 17:33 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 20:30 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 20:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-18 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-04 17:32 ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-04 20:47 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-05 17:55 ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-05 13:57 ` John Stoffel
2007-07-05 14:23 ` Chris Mason
2007-07-05 17:57 ` Erik Mouw
2007-06-18 15:32 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 23:18 ` Bron Gondwana
2007-09-29 17:44 ` Sorin Faibish
2007-09-29 17:44 ` Sorin Faibish
2007-06-18 15:51 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-18 16:37 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 17:56 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-19 3:10 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19 7:49 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 7:58 ` Bron Gondwana
2007-06-20 2:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19 9:09 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-19 16:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-15 22:52 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-16 8:25 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 18:03 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 19:06 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:03 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:08 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:15 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:27 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:34 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 20:38 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-19 21:02 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:12 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:22 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:10 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:14 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-20 8:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-19 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-19 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 8:05 ` Ph. Marek
2007-06-19 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 22:07 ` david
2007-06-19 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 23:07 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-19 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 22:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 23:35 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20 0:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-06-20 5:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:04 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:33 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-15 22:57 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 23:01 ` alan
2007-06-16 11:20 ` Johannes Weiner
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