From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:58:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20070516125813.GH5472@lazybastard.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <787b0d920705151626x3a11b81csf0f3747a695131b0@mail.gmail.com> <20070516111840.GB20482@mail.shareable.org> <84144f020705160508t275cb379k71bdd21c9e7d3d6e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jamie Lokier , Albert Cahalan , akpm@osdl.org, Evgeniy Polyakov , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Oeser , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Jan Engelhardt , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:34295 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752203AbXEPNDL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 09:03:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020705160508t275cb379k71bdd21c9e7d3d6e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:08:15 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 5/16/07, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >Given that the filesystem is still 'experimental', I'd concentrate o= n > >getting it stable before worrying about immutable and xattrs unless > >they are easy. >=20 > We will run into trouble if the on-disk format is not flexible enough > to accommodate xattrs (think reiser3 here). So I'd worry about it > before merging to mainline. Adding xattrs would be fairly simple. Inodes just need one extra pointer for that. Luckily inodes no longer need to be padded to 128 or 256 bytes. They are individually compressed, so their size is not limited to powers of two. J=C3=B6rn --=20 To recognize individual spam features you have to try to get into the mind of the spammer, and frankly I want to spend as little time inside the minds of spammers as possible. -- Paul Graham - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html