Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:10:31 +0200
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
Cc: Markus T??rnqvist <mjt@nysv.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Nicholas Miell <nmiell@gmail.com>, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>,
       Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Spam <spam@tnonline.net>, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com,
       hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Salut,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:43:21AM +0200, Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz wrote:
> >Then I guess OS X ships a broken implementation of cp, yes?
>=20
> Nope, GUI handles it perfectly. it's maybe 0.1% of users of MacOS that=20
> acctually care about cp being broken.

Actually, there is a (non-GNU) free implementation of the fileutils on
MacOS/X  that treats  and  copies  the .DS_Store  entries  (or say  is
metadata aware).

And  even  though  I might  agree  on  that  the principle  of  having
per-directory  database files is  somewhat hacky,  it appears  to work
like a charm (As long as userland programs do care about it).

On Linux we have a solution that actually works just the same and is a
lot cooler. It's called POSIX extended attributes...

			    Tonnerre

PS. If you want to talk further  on the subject of how MacOS/X does it
and how I would do it using extended attributes, discuss it in private
mail with me, since MacOS/X isn't really Linux. And no, I don't want a
single daemon do  that, but I want it to  be a standard implementation
that libc and fileutils support.

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