Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:16:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Dmitry Brodsky <dima@cs.ubc.ca>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meta-Data & stackable FS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007122315310.43271-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000712102753.50110D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. > Fair enough. File system implementors just need to remember to check, at mount, that the underlying filesystem does indeed support EAs. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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