From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Minutoli Subject: xattr index Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:33:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20070927193314.06594648@legolas.homenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_8BpaQZSdxtvX2V8EKIchGZl; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:7642 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753903AbXI0RdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:33:00 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so2282094nfb for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org --Sig_8BpaQZSdxtvX2V8EKIchGZl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I am a student and for my graduation thesis I am working on filesystems. A part of the system that I have to implement is an index of extended attributes in kernel space and every functions needed to interact with indexes. I want to group indexes in a totally hidden(to the user) directory. For this purpose I need to modify the FS superblock in order to add a reference to the index-directory where every index is stored like regular files in the rest of the FS. In this way we could have the possibility to submit queries about xattrs to the FS like BFS does in haiku. What do you think about this possible functionality? Critics/suggestions are very appreciated. Thank you in advice. Cheers, Marco --=20 Marco Minutoli ICQ: 316621654 MSN: tradewind(at)email(dot)it Skype: mminutoli GPG-Key: 0x36AD4977 --Sig_8BpaQZSdxtvX2V8EKIchGZl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG++laWFngjDatSXcRApM8AJ9rfUb7ba+R2tgQBvDS3dcBHdac2gCcDcmG q5EzdNk6JX5FxJl+G4qEoN0= =fQnj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_8BpaQZSdxtvX2V8EKIchGZl--