Re: reiser4 plugins

Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-11T04:01:47Z

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> Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory,
> but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs.

Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ?

Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo

This should be suit both camps I'd think?

I mean, editing something is easy and you don't have to "know" how
to navigate /meta and you don't have the clash of files vs metadata
(is /meta/vfs/home/stesmi/foo a file or an attribute called foo of
the dir stesmi ?).

/home/stesmi/foo <- dir
/home/stesmi/.meta/foo <- "dir" containing all metadata
/home/stesmi/.meta/foo/attrib <- some attribute called attrib
/home/stesmi/foo/bar <- file
/home/stesmi/foo/.meta/bar <- "dir" containg all metadata
/home/stesmi/foo/.meta/bar/attrib <- some attribute called attrib

The file is $dir/$file. The attrib dir is $dir/.meta/$file.
The attribute is $dir/.meta/$file/$attribute.

If $attrib is something user-editable it's easy to
$EDITOR $dir/.meta/$file/$attrib

If this has already been taken up, I must've missed it.

// Stefan
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