Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:26AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
The xattr namespace offers zero functional advantage over the file
namespace. The use of '.' instead of '/' is idiotic, see the very short
paper The Hideous Name by Rob Pike (
Did you notice that V4 blows XFS and ReiserFS V3 away in benchmarks?
That is what I have been doing for 3 years
See www.namesys.com for details.
see www.microsoft.com why Windows is much better than Linux. Yeah, thanks.
still leaving every single non-rhetorical question unanswered
Matthias Andree wrote:
If so, the whole discussion is about getting out of the frying pan and
into the fire. The traditional approach will then be standards compliant
but be out-of-band and outside of the file system name space, the new
approach will be outside of the standards, requiring
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Did you notice that V4 blows XFS and ReiserFS V3 away in benchmarks?
That is what I have been doing for 3 years
See www.namesys.com for details.
see www.microsoft.com why Windows is much better than Linux. Yeah, thanks.
Ask the users whether their
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:15:32AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
The ReiserFS maintainer (me, in case you forgot;-) ) decided what
release acls would go into, and you disregarded it and wrote an
implementation that was inconsistent with the one planned.
Surely this can not be such a bad thing.
Chris Mason wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:59, Hans Reiser wrote:
v4 didn't factor into these decisions because it was still in extremely
early stages back then (2.4.16 or so).
It was clearly indicated then that accessing acls was scheduled for V4
not V3.
I also view
V3 as stable
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 14:15, Hans Reiser wrote:
Chris Mason wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:59, Hans Reiser wrote:
v4 didn't factor into these decisions because it was still in extremely
early stages back then (2.4.16 or so).
It was clearly indicated then that accessing acls was
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:26AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
The xattr namespace offers zero functional advantage over the file
namespace. The use of '.' instead of '/' is idiotic, see the very short
paper The Hideous Name by Rob Pike ( www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/
) for why mindlessly
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Chris Mason wrote:
I hope v4 does improve the xattr api, and I hope it manages to do so for
more then just reiser4. It is important that application writers are
able to code to a single interface and get coverage across all the major
linux filesystems.
Interesting
* Matthias Andree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
With respect to Hans's reasoning about name spaces, is there an official
standard that mandates a particular API for the ACL stuff (POSIX)?
POSIX ACL's sit defined in a withdrawn POSIX spec (1003.1e). The API
doesn't specify the fs/vfs level detail
Hey, I was reading that!
Please do *not* go making modifications to Cc: lists. Just do reply-to-all
and be happy, thanks.
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