From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jul 11 13:33:35 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 DDDAD37B899 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:33:31 -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 WAA15557; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:33:29 +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 WAA02170; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:33:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:33:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Dmitry Brodsky , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meta-Data & stackable FS In-Reply-To: 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 > Use the v_data pointer on your vnodes to point to your local meta-data. Now, > if you need this meta-data to be persistent, that's another matter > entirely. In that case, you'll probably want to look at umapfs or the quota > code for reference. Absolutely not! Persistent metadata should be stuck in the EAs. We have a mechanism for this, now, so let's not start reinventing the wheel. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message