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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
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In article <42CD3580.4020008@slaphack.com>,
David Masover  <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
>Markus Törnqvist wrote:
>> Anyway, I don't really like the metafs thing.
>> 
>> To access the data, you still need to refactor userspace,
>> so that's not a real advantage. Doing lookups from /meta
>> all the time, instead of in the file-as-dir-whatever...
>
>I don't really see the disadvantage.
>
>Also, metafs means much less of a fight to get people to adopt the whole 
>meta concept, because it can be done in a POSIX-compliant way which 
>doesn't break tar.
>
>File-as-dir is nice if you're using meta files, but it causes lots of 
>unexpected weirdness.  I don't think metafs costs us much in 
>performance, and with one or two shell scripts, it wouldn't cost us that 
>much efficiency on the commandline.

file-as-dir is an innovation. Metafs is an ugly compromise.

Mike.