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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Zarochentcev <zam@namesys.com>,
	vs <vs@thebsh.namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - EXPERIMENTAL] files with forks in the VFS
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 22:59:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <413BFCB5.4010608@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16699.44411.361938.856856@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:

>As a followup to the multi-branching threads about reiser4, I would
>like to present this patch for discussion and exploration.
>It implements files with fork (which are quite different to files that
>provide different views via a subdirectory structure).
>  
>
How are they different?  Having a distinguished file is consistent with 
the reiser4 approach.

>See Documentation/filesystems/forks.txt (after applying the patch) for more detail.
>
>This is not "how it should be done" but rather "how it could be done",
>and is intended primarily to provide a base for experimentation and
>exploration. 
>
>Below is a sample of what can be done, and then the patch.
>
>NeilBrown
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-06  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-06  0:21 [PATCH - EXPERIMENTAL] files with forks in the VFS Neil Brown
2004-09-06  5:59 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-09-06 23:04   ` Neil Brown
2004-09-07 19:31     ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-08  0:27       ` Neil Brown

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