Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

Timothy Miller
2004-09-15T17:23:06Z

Hey, you know how device nodes have a bit set, indicating that they're
device nodes and not regular files? Can a set of such properties be
defined for reiser4 metadata properties?

Like a "metadata" bit so you can distinguish (if you wish) between
regular files and metadata objects, and in addition an "archivable
metadata" bit which indicates that the given piece of metadata is not
automatically generated and should be archived during backup (some
manually-generated metadata which does not need to be backed up will not
have this bit set -- perhaps add another flag indicating that it's not
automatic but unnecessary to archive).