Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:36:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>, Dmitry Brodsky <dima@cs.ubc.ca>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meta-Data & stackable FS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007121734260.6345-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000712102753.50110D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> BTW, I think there's a decent argument that even if you had > fully-functional stacking, having the base file store provide EA services > is highly desirable, as it allows layers to impose new semantics and > meta-data without needing to deal with the namespace and storage issues, > and it simplifies the update/consistency problem substantially. I agree. The main point with EAs is to allow future expansion without going through the usual process of figuring out which already over-abused corner of the FS you can kludge a feature into *this* time. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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