From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269170AbUH0DD3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:03:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269379AbUHZSxS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:53:18 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:34788 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269304AbUHZSp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:45:57 -0400 Message-ID: <412E2FE5.1020606@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:45:57 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , Linus Torvalds , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825201929.GA16855@lst.de> <412DA25E.9090405@namesys.com> <20040826092413.GA28854@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20040826092413.GA28854@lst.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >How do you for example suggestion exporting your semantics over the >network if they're not done at the VFS level? How do you want some >clusterfilesystem support them or tmpfs? > > > > by accesses to filename/metas..... That's the beauty of simplicity, not much is needed. xattrs on the other hand would be a lot of work to integrate into a cluster filesystem. Hans