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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        Dmitry Brodsky <dima@cs.ubc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Meta-Data & stackable FS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007112228010.2092-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <200007102330.QAA06084@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>

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> 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



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