From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:42:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414176F2.3030301@hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909090342.GA30303@thunk.org>
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:09:52AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>
>
>>Maybe file/./attribute then. /. on a file is currently meaningless. That does
>>not avoid the unpleasant fact that has been brought up by others (only to be
>>ignored), that the directory syntax does not allow metadata on directories.
>>
>>
>
>*Not* that I am endorsing the idea of being able to access metadata
>via a standard pathname --- I continue to believe that named streams
>are a bad idea that will be an attractive nuisance to application
>developers, and if we must do them, then Solaris's openat(2) API is
>the best way to proceed --- HOWEVER, if people are insistent on being
>able to do this via standard pathnames, and not introducing a new
>system call, I would suggest /|/ as the separator as the third least
>worst option. Why?
>
>
What's wrong with using / as the separator? It is already
used to separate components of pathnames. Named streams
are very much like files in a subdirectory.
This scheme makes for very little change to existing tools,
users may then do a "gimp somefile/icon.jpg" for example.
Or "ls somefile/*" to see all the named streams/forks.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 20:21 silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Hans Reiser
2004-08-31 13:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-31 13:36 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-07 20:16 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-07 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-08 9:14 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-07 21:05 ` William Stearns
2004-09-07 22:09 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-09-09 9:03 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat " Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-09 17:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 18:09 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-09 19:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 20:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 0:57 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 1:15 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 5:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 5:53 ` viro
2004-09-10 6:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:05 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:30 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 16:49 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-10 17:23 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:21 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:33 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:46 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 8:18 ` viro
2004-09-10 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 17:48 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 13:08 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-10 3:22 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-12 20:43 ` Davide Inglima
2004-09-10 9:42 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2004-09-10 17:42 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] ` <20040910201738.GB8698@eskimo.com>
2004-09-14 8:39 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-31 14:09 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what " Mike Waychison
2004-08-31 17:55 ` V13
2004-08-31 18:17 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:08 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-31 19:38 ` Spam
2004-09-01 3:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-08-31 19:35 ` V13
[not found] ` <874qmjm51g.fsf@uhoreg.ca>
2004-08-31 20:31 ` Spam
[not found] ` <87vfezkm06.fsf@uhoreg.ca>
2004-08-31 22:15 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:49 ` Chris Dawes
2004-09-01 6:03 ` Hans Reiser
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