On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:06 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On 5/8/08, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:09 +0000, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > > > > > > I'm having trouble understanding what you are requesting and what > > > > could be done about that. > > > > > > > > Can you please enumerate the requirements that affect the internal > > > > file layout and any other view that we may be able to provide? > > > > > > That there is *some* hope of finding a file by a human in a raw file > > > system, that can be done with software already present on the system.... > > > > With the proposed metadata text file, there's already that hope. You > > think it's not enough and you may very well be right. What I'm asking > > is: how big an effort are we willing to devote to this and until which > > point we want to compromise on robustness and simplicity? > > Until we know what the tradeoffs really are, we need to explore in this > direction. Names only as hashes has proved to be a major headache in > practice in the field.
That's true. But I also think the FUSE layer will make a big difference in this regard, at the point that it *might* be enough. I agree anyway that more transparency at the raw file system level would be desiderable and that we should figure out what are exactly the tradeoffs there. Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
