Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933504AbXFRWs2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:48:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762815AbXFRWsT (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:48:19 -0400 Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:51116 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762944AbXFRWsS (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:48:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:48:15 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, =?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: <20070618224815.GM1152@samba1> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <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> <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 26 On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:10:21PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > And that makes them different from extended attributes, how? > > > > Both of these really are nothing but ad hocky syntactic sugar for > > directories, sometimes combined with in-filesystem support for small > > data items. > > There's a good discussion of the issues involved in my LCA 2006 > presentation.... which doesn't seem to be on the LCA 2006 site. Hrm. > I'll have to ask that this be fixed. In any case, here it is: > > http://thunk.org/tytso/forkdepot.odp Did you ever code up forkdepot ? Just wondering ? Just because I now agree with you that streams are a bad idea doesn't mean the pressure to support them in some way in Samba has gone away :-). 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/