Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 22:22:43 -0300

In message <199809030216.MAA11181@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch
writes
:
+-----
| OK, fine. So if the metadata requirements are demanding, as you
| indicate, then just put the different streams into separate files. The
| FS has good code to do all this, why do it again?
+--->8

Again: because you have to locate all these chunks to move the file to
another system. Counterintuitive. (And I have to do the support after some
luser does this and then can't figure out why their file is screwed up :-)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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