Re: File as a directory - back to predicates

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 9/5/05, Alexander G. M. Smith <agmsmith@rogers.com> wrote:

> michael chang wrote on Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:57:20 -0400:
> > Could it end up being a user-space/high-level library?  Manually
> > implementing this as it is will have sucky performance anyways.  The
> > idea would be to discourage it's use unless it's necessary, at least
> > on older FSes.  Then the API wouldn't get adopted, however.
> 
> Sounds like LibFerris.  http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/  If everyone
> uses it, fine.  But to get everyone to use it, it's better if the functionality
> is in the file system.  Then metadata queries can be used by common tools, like
> "ls", "grep" or even "cd".

All the better, I suppose.  Assuming the stubborns at kernel lists
allow you to put it in. =.="

Still, it's easier if it's done in the next devel cycle for them...
assuming there *IS* a next cycle (that could be quite a ways off,
which is the problem for Reiser4 AFAIK).

Do the linux kernel lists allow a "notice-for-intent-of-filesystem(or
feature)-inclusion-proposal" and then let you attach a preliminary
patch, before the required patch?  That might have been useful,
although I'm rather fond of Namesys's policies for submission and
stuffs.

-- 
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
 - No man is an island, and no man is unable.