From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:10:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> References: <8wst3-3kh-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wsCC-3wf-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wsW4-3UY-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wJal-3KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: "H. Peter Anvin" Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:53172 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763025AbXFRWLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:11:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > And that makes them different from extended attributes, how? > > Both of these really are nothing but ad hocky syntactic sugar for > directories, sometimes combined with in-filesystem support for small > data items. There's a good discussion of the issues involved in my LCA 2006 presentation.... which doesn't seem to be on the LCA 2006 site. Hrm. I'll have to ask that this be fixed. In any case, here it is: http://thunk.org/tytso/forkdepot.odp - Ted