From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:20:38 +0200 Message-ID: <200408270020.39190.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.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: Rik van Riel In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:10, Rik van Riel wrote: > Do we really want to have a file paradigm that's different > from the other OSes out there ? > > What happens when users want to transfer data from Linux > to another system ? I think it depends on the transport being used: some transports could allow for metadata (i.e. a MIME-compatible transport) while some others don't. Of course, the remote side needs to also support metadata (i,e. using a MIME-compatible transport against a remote host that doesn't understand metadata is certainly impossible). For example, with FTP transports, I guess the only possible option is to transfer the unnamed/default stream. NFS should allow metadata, but this probably needs some kind of extensions to the NFS protocol.