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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 22:59:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH - EXPERIMENTAL] files with forks in the VFS
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Neil Brown wrote:

>As a followup to the multi-branching threads about reiser4, I would
>like to present this patch for discussion and exploration.
>It implements files with fork (which are quite different to files that
>provide different views via a subdirectory structure).
>  
>
How are they different?  Having a distinguished file is consistent with 
the reiser4 approach.

>See Documentation/filesystems/forks.txt (after applying the patch) for more detail.
>
>This is not "how it should be done" but rather "how it could be done",
>and is intended primarily to provide a base for experimentation and
>exploration. 
>
>Below is a sample of what can be done, and then the patch.
>
>NeilBrown
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>

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