Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

[David Masover]

Nate Diller wrote:
> On 8/1/06, David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:

> > I could be entirely wrong, though.  I speak for neither
> > Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML.  Talk amongst yourselves...
>
> i should clarify things a bit here.  yes, hans' goal is for there to
> be no difference between the "xattr" namespace and the "readdir" one.
> unfortunately, this is not feasible with the current VFS, and some
> major work would have to be done to enable this without some
> pathological cases cropping up.  some very smart people think that it
> cannot be done at all.

But an xattr interface should work just fine, even if the rest of the 
system is inaccessible (no readdir interface) -- preventing all these 
pathological problems, except the one where Hans implements it the way 
I'm thinking, and kernel people hate it.
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