Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status)

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Marowsky-Br=E9e?= (lmb@pointer.teuto.de)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:11:21 +0200


On 1998-09-02T14:22:01,
Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> said:

> Don't implement as multiple data streams, implement as directories.

You don't need any special fs support for this.

The meta-data handling should be hidden in the userland libraries. Nothing
stops you from giving special meaning to files in a directory.

If you need a "metadata-challenged" application to access the "default" part
of your metadata, don't point it at the directory, point it at the
directory/default file.

tar, cp etc will handle this just fine.

Or am I missing something for which you do need fs support?

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée

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