... it). On Linux we have a solution that actually works just the same and is a lot cooler. It's called POSIX extended attributes... Tonnerre PS. If you want to talk further on the subject of how MacOS/X does it and how I would do it using ...

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 07:10

... ), and do it =66rom an userspace daemon/application/file manager plugin which uses dynamically loadable plugins for the different file types differentiated by libmagic. This has nothing to do in the kernel. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Aug 29 2004 - 15:10

... daemon based on libmagic which stores the file attributes in xattrs, or if they're not supported, in some MacOS/Xish per-directory files. Even a file manager ("finder") can do that, there's not even the need for a daemon. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Aug 31 2004 - 04:15

... call to take an additional argument (the stream ID), and introduce a compatibility interface into *libc which chooses strid=0 by default if the plain old open call is being used. Maybe this can be handled transparently by cpp.. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 09:44

... at libc level. I was talking about modifying the open system call in the kernel and having libc provide compatibility for the old call. Since I'm not sure how much breakage it takes to make a file a directory. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 8 2004 - 12:02

Salut, On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:50:10AM -0400, James Bruce wrote: > filesystem to implement the Berkely DB interface (libdb) for example. =20 Problem is that BerkeleyDB changes its API all the time. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 11:12

Salut, On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:39:06AM +0200, Spam wrote: > "nano file.jpg/description.txt" Is that supposed to do steganography? Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 11:07

... into the kernel? In case of marketing it's up to the distributions to provide something concise so everyone can use their programs through a coherent namespace. (I.e. port all the apps they ship to gnome-vfs or kio). Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 03:45

... to happen. It's the question of whether we can ignore our childish concept wars, or if we're always going to stay at that low level we're at now. Actually, this can't be fixed by putting everything into the kernel. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 04:56

... some FS is fat or not. And don't say detect it via a partition table. There are a lot of cases where you get absolutely no or wrong information out of it, and there are also lots of cases where you plainly have none. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 04:04

... > Uhm, can you delete a file (loop) that is mounted? "Text file busy" But for files this isn't true. Currently, we have another method assuring data coherency: we remove the inode only when the last reference goes away. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 04:58

Salut, On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:53:49PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > thats why we have automount. Plus the HAL automounting code which dynamically generates mountpoints for HAL detected devices... Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 09:45

... > 22050 > Track01.wav > ... > 44100 > Track01.wav > ... So you'd like the kernel to know about raw CD PCM and RIFF PCM format and conversion? Great.. That's really Solarisish! Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 10:43

... 24 2003-11-09 16:41 evil.iso/evil_p= rogram $ evil.iso/evil_program Mwahaha, I got root! Copy-right violating IP... done. Hijacking administrators wife... done. Overwriting OS with Parachute 2010... done. etc. pp. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 6 2004 - 03:56

... system which used pure devfs (i.e. no old dev names), and it was doing super well without devfs. sysinstall was the only process running, and I could install Linux on any writeable device without using devfsd. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 8 2004 - 11:25

... used. =20 I'd not use a daemon or any mtime for it. I'd just put it into xattrs and let it up to the applications to poke the values in case they changed. And copy them on cp, since it would have to be changed either way. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 07:22

... -encoding as a named stream though. Why having them as named streams if we can get them as xattrs for no additional pain? (Since fileutils would have to be changed anyway, we can even make cp copy and emacs update xattrs.) Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 07:17

... have to do that in either case, so let's patch them to do it in a nonintrusive way. And as to reading and writing inside tar files, write and/or use a really nice userspace library to do it. (As does MacOS/X, as does KDE, etc.) Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 07:58

... zero. Kind of an automatic umount. How do you tell which file systems shall be autoumounted? HAL suggestion: introduce a no-op mount option. For some classes of fs'es we might as well make that obligatory, such as tar. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 8 2004 - 02:11

... 20 > Of course, no idea how it's implemented, but users like it. The trick is that their tools are aware of it, and that the library the programs use supports on-the-fly decompression. Same applies to Spotlight for Tiger. Tonnerre

linux-fsdevel - Tonnerre - Sep 5 2004 - 07:54