Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins | Date | Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:51:07 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:41:00 -0400, Chet Hosey <chosey@nauticom.net> said: > > Horst von Brand wrote: > >> And who says that a normal user isn't allowed to annotate each and > >> every file with its purpose or something else?
> Explain how you currently allow users to annotate arbitrary files.
By keeping annotations /outside/ the files.
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> The situation is even better with file-as-dir. If the administrator > wants to allow users to edit the description metadata for the file foo, > the administrator can set the appropriate permissions for > foo/.../description, and keep foo read-only.
So now root is responsible in exquisite detail for random other users being able to keep info about my files?
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> Actually, you could use something like unionfs to allow users to keep > their own annotations without affecting everyone else's.
Again, root has to mount that stuff for each and every user? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/
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