Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Hans Reiser]

You don't need extended attributes, you just needs files and 
directories....  www.namesys.com/v4.html says more.

Hans

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > It is true that there are many features, such as an automatic text 
> > indexer, that belong in user space, but the basic indexes (aka 
> > directories) and index traversal code belong in the kernel.
> >    
>
> Sure, but if you have a kernel which supports arbitraty extended
> attributes for files you don't need much more kernel support. You
> can implement things like metadata for files and query languages on
> top of that in userspace. If you modify applications to (also) put some
> metadata (meta tags from html pages, document properties from office
> documents, etc.) in those extended attributes you might already be where
> microsoft is going.
>
> You only would need some kernel interaction if you want to keep an
> updated index of file contents (dnotify for a while filesystem and
> reindexing whole files instead of blocks doesn't sound very attractive).
>
> Wichert.
>
>  


--
Hans


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