From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:21:35 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <873cf0t2y8.fsf@labatt.uhoreg.ca> References: <3F60925F.9000004@namesys.com> <3122307789-BeMail@cr593174-a> <20030914015610.GB26701@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Retry... >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk writes: [...] Mike> Please concentrate on cross platform file formats. Nah, this is a filesystems list. We don't care about file formats. ;-) Actually, most of the important data will probably still remain in the file itself, but Reiser4 will use a plugin to extract attributes. If the file format supports attributes. If not, then when you transfer the file, the recipient wouldn't have gotten the attributes anyways. Mike> How is this going to be exported with nfs or samba? My preference would be to make Reiser5 a distributed filesystem, and make it work under Windows and Mac. But that's just me. Life will be much nicer after Reiser[4|5|6] takes over the world. ;-) [...] >> I'd also like to attach a BeOS style MIME type attribute to >> everything, Mike> So now you have to read an attribute just to find out that it's a Mike> text file, once for each file. Talk about performance... Mike> Compare that to just reading the directory listing once. You must have a magic ls. My ls doesn't tell me which files are plain text/binary data/images/audio/etc. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.