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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:11:28 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - Make a new file type, and put just that information in the
>   directory (so that it shows up in d_type on a readdir()).  Put the
>   real data in the file, ie make it largely look like an "extended
>   symlink".

reading directories therefore causes lots of seeks and performance
begins to suck again

IMO, extended attributes are a better place to store this and making
it per-inode, there is an argument that having a file behave
differently in different places is unecessaryly complex and really
doesn't solve any know real-world problems



  --cw
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