Messages in this thread | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins | Date | Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:47:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <42CD3580.4020008@slaphack.com>, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote: >Markus Törnqvist wrote: >> 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.
file-as-dir is an innovation. Metafs is an ugly compromise.
Mike.
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