Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751115AbWHBDyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:54:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751111AbWHBDyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:54:24 -0400 Received: from 63-162-81-179.lisco.net ([63.162.81.179]:43653 "EHLO grunt.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751115AbWHBDyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:54:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44D021EE.1040907@slaphack.com> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:54:22 -0400 From: David Masover User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Diller CC: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , Andrew Morton , vda.linux@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reiserfs-List@namesys.com Subject: Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs? References: <1158166a0607310226m5e134307o8c6bedd1f883479c@mail.gmail.com> <20060801013104.f7557fb1.akpm@osdl.org> <44CEBA0A.3060206@namesys.com> <1154431477.10043.55.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <20060801073316.ee77036e.akpm@osdl.org> <1154444822.10043.106.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <44CF879D.1000803@slaphack.com> <5c49b0ed0608011226w328d809fy9d50aa785ad93536@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608011226w328d809fy9d50aa785ad93536@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1103 Lines: 23 Nate Diller wrote: > On 8/1/06, David Masover wrote: >> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: >> I could be entirely wrong, though. I speak for neither >> Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML. Talk amongst yourselves... > > i should clarify things a bit here. yes, hans' goal is for there to > be no difference between the "xattr" namespace and the "readdir" one. > unfortunately, this is not feasible with the current VFS, and some > major work would have to be done to enable this without some > pathological cases cropping up. some very smart people think that it > cannot be done at all. But an xattr interface should work just fine, even if the rest of the system is inaccessible (no readdir interface) -- preventing all these pathological problems, except the one where Hans implements it the way I'm thinking, and kernel people hate it. - 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/