On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:54:43 +0200, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On all real-life fs I am aware of reading xattrs are dead slow which is > the primary reasons they are not taken in consideration by gvfs and > thelike. Well but that's a technical issue and has nothing to do with standarisation.
> We don't want people > to use them at this point in time. I doubt that anyone has the right or power to decide what people should use and not. And doing some standardisation effort now (even if they're performance-wise unusable for technical reasons ATM) helps to avoid that people set up their own names, which are then totally in-organised and will likely cause troubles later. >> 2) oid. hierarchy: >> Analogous to (1), but using OIDs as namspace, e.g. >> "1.3.6.1.4.1.32806.my_personal_attribute" > oid? Really? Just an example ^^.... and what's worse with OIDs compared to DNS? They're used in many places. Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
