Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764769AbXFRVfO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:35:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760090AbXFRVe5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:34:57 -0400 Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:45599 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761665AbXFRVe4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:34:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:34:38 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Theodore Tso , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system Message-ID: <20070618213438.GK1152@samba1> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <8wst3-3kh-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wsCC-3wf-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wsW4-3UY-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wJal-3KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 521 Lines: 14 On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > And that makes them different from extended attributes, how? Streams on systems that support them allow lseek and are accessed by fd's. EA's are always a blob of data, read/written in their entirity. Jeremy. - 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/