Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 19:39:40 -0300

In message <199809022157.OAA04849@sun4.apsoft.com>, Perry Harrington writes:
+-----
| You would then include their inode lists in the inode list for the file
| they are storing information for. You would arrange the inode lists so
| that a read from the file would produce just the file, but you could
| do some magic and read ALL the data from the file.
+--->8

Ummm, no. The magic should be done by the programs that know about
metadata: otherwise you're back to the problem of copy/mv/tar/etc. not
working on those files. You can't provide transparent access to only the
primary data without breaking those operations (or providing nasty
Linux-specific versions --- then Witness help you if you untar on some other
system or copy to NFS/AFS/Coda/etc.).

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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