Yeah, but having this format be user-visible in so prominent a place (ls -l output) makes it pretty difficult to make it really be not-an-interface.
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:10:43PM -0700, Afshin Salek wrote: >> This is mentioned in the material that we would have a reparsed >> daemon is userspace which knows how do deal with the overall format >> and knows how to deal with service specific parts through a plugin >> model where each service would have its own module. This would make >> the whole thing easily expandable for future services/subsystems >> that want to use this mechanism for location redirection. > > Indeed. What was not clear though was that a later case would add the > necessary UI. Now I know that, so never mind my earlier comments. >