Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266485AbUIEL7M (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266490AbUIEL7M (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:59:12 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:55696 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266485AbUIEL6A (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:58:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:57:49 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1215700165.20040905135749@tnonline.net> To: Tonnerre CC: Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , , , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 26 > 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.) What if I do not use emacs, but vim, mcedit, gedit, or some other editor? It doesn't seem logical to have to patch every application that uses files. ~S > Tonnerre - 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/