Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2004-09-05T11:40:02Z

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:17:43 +0200, Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch> wrote:
> Salut,
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:02:24AM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> > I can see the argument for having the equivalent of Content-type or
> > Content-transfer-encoding as a named stream though.
>
> Why having them as named streams if we can get them as xattrs for no
> additional pain? (Since fileutils would have to be changed anyway, we
> can even make cp copy and emacs update xattrs.)

Because some of as requested to be able to open tar,iso, and few other
formats this way. So I can simply access it with cat (as a dir/file).

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GJ