From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jul 11 13:29:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A8137B8BA for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id WAA15117; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02153; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Dmitry Brodsky Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meta-Data & stackable FS In-Reply-To: <200007102330.QAA06084@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am in the process of creating a stackable fs by using the nullfs as > a template. One thing I am having a hard time figuring out is a good > way to instantiate additional meta-data with each file. Is that > possible? What is the best way of going about doing that? This is a very large part of the point of the new extended attribute mechanisms. These will hopefully cange soon; I'm having talks with R Watson over this. In the meantime, you'll want to use the current IF for it. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message