From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: <2f4958ff04090504405243fc38@mail.gmail.com> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> Reply-To: =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Tonnerre In-Reply-To: <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:17:43 +0200, Tonnerre 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). -- GJ