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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
To: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Reiserfs-List@namesys.com
Subject: Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:54:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D021EE.1040907@slaphack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608011226w328d809fy9d50aa785ad93536@mail.gmail.com>

Nate Diller wrote:
> On 8/1/06, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
>> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:

>> I could be entirely wrong, though.  I speak for neither
>> Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML.  Talk amongst yourselves...
> 
> i should clarify things a bit here.  yes, hans' goal is for there to
> be no difference between the "xattr" namespace and the "readdir" one.
> unfortunately, this is not feasible with the current VFS, and some
> major work would have to be done to enable this without some
> pathological cases cropping up.  some very smart people think that it
> cannot be done at all.

But an xattr interface should work just fine, even if the rest of the 
system is inaccessible (no readdir interface) -- preventing all these 
pathological problems, except the one where Hans implements it the way 
I'm thinking, and kernel people hate it.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-02  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31  9:26 reiser4: maybe just fix bugs? Denis Vlasenko
2006-07-31 12:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-31 16:17 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-31 20:06   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-01 15:22     ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-01  2:30 ` Hans Reiser
2006-08-01 10:37   ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-01 13:59     ` Scott J. Harmon
2006-08-02  6:22       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-02 19:53   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-08-01  8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01  2:18   ` Hans Reiser
2006-08-01 11:24     ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-08-01 14:33       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 15:07         ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-08-01 16:55           ` David Masover
2006-08-01 19:26             ` Nate Diller
2006-08-02  3:54               ` David Masover [this message]
2006-08-03  7:46             ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-04 21:09               ` David Masover
2006-08-01 19:14         ` Nate Diller
2006-08-01 11:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-01 11:52   ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-01 14:54     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 19:32   ` Andi Kleen

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