On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:41:14PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: >Christoph is a bright and clever young fellow, who just hasn't had the >years of study of the field yet. I wish him well, and away.;-) I see this is as an opportunity where you can ...

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 25 2004 - 16:58

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:35:32AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Question: Is "cat /foo/bar/baz.tar.gz/metas" the attribute >directory or a directory in the tarball named "metas"? This has been fought over on the reiserfs-list ad nauseaum, but it's a

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 27 2004 - 05:19

... Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:50, Christophe Saout wrote: >> are read-only and system-wide and the user-overridden changes. I don't >> know if all of these things would really make sense inside the kernel. >True. FWIW, I never use most of those features. It' ...

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 27 2004 - 05:21

... with a resource fork. Oh look, the Finder has no idea >what the new file is, even though it looks exactly identical in the >shell. Isn't that _wonderful_? Now try cat < a > b on a file with a >fork. How is that ever going to work? Then I guess OS X ...

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 26 2004 - 03:53

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:44:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:43:34PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: >> He's not proposing to add it to 2.4, is he? >We're talking about 2.6 here. 2.4 is the obsolete kernel series these

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 26 2004 - 08:49

... other operating systems ;) >Please don't. Unix works and is extremely ... posix compatibility. If you don't want to use a filesystem ... Maybe the reason Linux hasn't developed this yet is the ... ease, even >performance). I don't think anyone's talking about ...

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 27 2004 - 16:32

... seems to be delayed yet more, I don't think >that's a very strong argument. But there's Mac OS and isn't Solaris doing something along these lines? Microsoft isn't alone there ;) >scare people with MS activities. Linux kernel ...

linux-fsdevel - Markus T - Aug 27 2004 - 16:53