Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266465AbUIELkn (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266487AbUIELkY (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:40:24 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:25092 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266474AbUIELkF (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:40:05 -0400 Message-ID: <2f4958ff04090504405243fc38@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:40:02 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= Reply-To: =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= To: Tonnerre Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Cc: Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 23 On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:17:43 +0200, Tonnerre wrote: > Salut, > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:02:24AM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote: > > I can see the argument for having the equivalent of Content-type or > > Content-transfer-encoding as a named stream though. > > Why having them as named streams if we can get them as xattrs for no > additional pain? (Since fileutils would have to be changed anyway, we > can even make cp copy and emacs update xattrs.) Because some of as requested to be able to open tar,iso, and few other formats this way. So I can simply access it with cat (as a dir/file). -- GJ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/