Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 01:21:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Chuck McCrobie <mccrobie@cablespeed.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New File system to commit to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020506082125.GC36741@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3CD63C3F.2F4E8F02@mindspring.com> References: <3CD5F4CD.2F394EFE@cablespeed.com> <20020506040438.GZ36741@elvis.mu.org> <3CD63C3F.2F4E8F02@mindspring.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [020506 01:18] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Chuck McCrobie <mccrobie@cablespeed.com> [020505 20:13] wrote: > > > 3. OpenVMS and ODs-2 keep record attributes and embedded meta-data in > > > the regular file data. I've been writing some utility programs that > > > understand the meta-data, like "ods2_cat" and "ods2_cp". Also, some > > > work has progressed on an RMS library. Should and how are such things > > > committed? > > > > This sounds like quite a suite of utilities, my _guess_ is that > > the FS code could/would be committed to FreeBSD, but the utilities > > to manipulate the FS (ods2_cat, ods2_cp) would go into a port. > > You could either hack into the namespace, or you could provide > an fcntl() that gets passed down to the FS for an open descriptor, > to turn these utilities tiny, and incorporate most of the code into > the FS itself (you are much better off doing this, if you can, since > it means that the facilities won't be "lost" into a port for which > FTP services will have to be maintained in perpetuity). > > Right now, since FreeBSD doesn't propagate namespace selection > information from the POSIX namespsace escape down properly, you > would have to hack it to operate on a per component basis (not > as bad as you might imagine, but still an annoying thing to have > to do), so for my money, an fcntl() would be the best approach. Yeah, I find it really odd that one would expose the internals of the actual meta-data to applications. ...wandering off topic... Is that how VMS does it (in the kernel)? Or is there some userland library that you _must use_ to access files that does this sort of thing for you? Or does each userspace application have to do magic to parse meta-data? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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