On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:24:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Over the last at least five years we've taken as much as possible > > semantics out of the filesystems and into the VFS layer, thus having > > a separation between the semantical layer (VFS) and the low level > > filesystem. Your attributes are absoultely a VFS thing and as such > > should not happen at the filesystem layer, and no, that doesn't mean > > they're bad per se, I just think they are a rather bad fit for Linux. > > Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to > support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer.
ACK. However, I'm still not seeing *ANYTHING* that would look like a workable scheme in presense of hardlinks. Show me how to make that deadlock- and race-free and we might very well do it in VFS. _That_ is what's missing and it's needed no matter where it's implemented. You want hybrid objects - you want to solve that one. So far I've seen nothing workable.
