Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269031AbUIHJLQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:11:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269030AbUIHJLQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:11:16 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:20239 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269029AbUIHJJM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:09:12 -0400 Message-ID: <413ECD46.40707@hist.no> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:13:42 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tonnerre CC: Tom Vier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1093480940.2748.35.camel@entropy> <20040826044425.GL5414@waste.org> <1093496948.2748.69.camel@entropy> <20040826053200.GU31237@waste.org> <412D9FFA.6030307@hist.no> <20040902230526.GB15505@zero> <41382624.7000701@hist.no> <20040905111357.GB26560@thundrix.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040905111357.GB26560@thundrix.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 38 Tonnerre wrote: >Salut, > >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >>Moving a file doen't move the associated thumbnail, and then you >>notice something is missing, or don't find the file, or have to wait >>for regeneration when the app notices a file without a tumb. >>That could take some time if you moved a directory full of postscript >>files, for example. >> >> > >That's why the userland file utilities must be aware of the feature.. > > That won't ever happen. There are many ways of implementing thumbnails, and people don't want to slow down the operation of "mv" by having it search for _all_ the known thumbnails schemes. (Yes - several may be in use simultaneosly because the user uses several file managers!) The waste of time is even more interesting for the many directories that doesn't have thumbs at all. A file-as-dir implementation of thumbnails avoids this particular problem. There are other uses, so I hope people won't see file-as-dir as a mechanism for "file attributes" _only_. Helge Hafting - 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/