From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alan Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Theodore Tso , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Return-path: Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:45532 "EHLO clueserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763894AbXFRVIF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:08:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote: > alan wrote: > >> I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The >> MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked >> filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea. >> (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with >> non-forked filesystems.) > > What's the conceptual difference between forks and extended user attributes? Forks tend to contain more than just extended attributes. They contain all sorts of other meta-data including icons, descriptions, author information, copyright data, and whatever else can be shoveled into them by the author/user. -- "ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined. ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..." - Alan Cox