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Alexander G. M. Smith wrote:
| I agree, it needs to start with a period. I'd also drop the idea The namespace of beginning with one period is almost as full as that of no periods, as mentioned before. Our best bet for uniqueness is to call it "reiser4metas" or something similar (.r4 or ..r4).
| of having a separate directory for metadata and just use a common That's what we were doing before. I didn't like it -- consider the use on files:
touch foo chmod +x foo cd foo/ ls
You either get 'foo/' or an error message. You do not get a list of all the pseudo files available. I'm sorry, but 'cat ..pseudo' just isn't a viable substitute for ls.
Also, the only disadvantage from the user's point of view is an extra '/'.
| I'm probably repeating myself, but the trouble is that the .meta | directory isn't a full directory - you can't add attributes to it. What kind of attributes would you want to add? And btw, check out what is currently 'metas/metas'. I don't know if that's actually functional or just read-only, but it works. And I also see no reason why (in raw uneducated theory) a plugin couldn't be implemented to make it into a full directory for certain files (and thus losing no functionality for other files).
| standard GUI file explorer to also check on attributes! With a | .meta directory, it seems good in a psychological organizational | way but it breaks the object model. That breakage will cause more
It doesn't have to. Look at how the "pure object-oriented" languages work. Many of them make everything some subclass of "object" -- even classes themselves. A class is an object of type class. I'm not sure how this is implemented in code, but in concept it works fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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