From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wichert Akkerman Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:25:49 +0200 Sender: Wichert Akkerman Message-ID: <20040826122549.GM2612@wiggy.net> References: <200408261034.38509.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826121223.GG30449@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rik van Riel , Denis Vlasenko , Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826121223.GG30449@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Previously Jamie Lokier wrote: > I find losing mtime annoying. That's why I don't use Mozilla's > download manager (and Navigator's before it) because they presumed > that mtime isn't worth copying. It's free software, you could fix that :) > Is it a problem to decree that "file data MUST NOT be stored in a > metadata directory; only non-essential metadata and data computed from > the file data may be stored"? That would put us right back at the samba-and-other-apps-want-streams point in the discussion, but it certainly would not be a bad starting point. From there we could always add streams later on if the API is right. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.