Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:00:32 -0500 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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Markus Törnqvist wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:54:46PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > >>Which would neither need VFS changes nor be dependent on Reiser4 in >>any way, so I don't see why this thread lives on. Just get down to >>business and implement this metafs =) > > > I've been gone for a while and suddenly drowning in mail... > > Anyway, I don't really like the metafs thing. > > To access the data, you still need to refactor userspace, > so that's not a real advantage. Doing lookups from /meta > all the time, instead of in the file-as-dir-whatever...
I don't really see the disadvantage.
Also, metafs means much less of a fight to get people to adopt the whole meta concept, because it can be done in a POSIX-compliant way which doesn't break tar.
File-as-dir is nice if you're using meta files, but it causes lots of unexpected weirdness. I don't think metafs costs us much in performance, and with one or two shell scripts, it wouldn't cost us that much efficiency on the commandline.
But, I also like file-as-dir. I think it might be time for a vote.
I vote metafs.
Or, maybe Hans needs to tell us which way we're going...
> And the best thing to do would be to bring these "Reiser4-specific" > enhancements to every FS.
Which has nothing to do with whether it's done in "metafs" or not. - 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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