From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266777AbUHZBHz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:07:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266648AbUHZBFZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:05:25 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:40645 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266613AbUHZBEr (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:04:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:03:55 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Nicholas Miell Cc: Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826010355.GB24731@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1093480940.2748.35.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093480940.2748.35.camel@entropy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas Miell wrote: > Anything that currently stores a file's metadata in another file really > wants this right now. Things like image thumbnails, document summaries, > digital signatures, etc. Additionally, all of those things you describe should be deleted if the file is modified -- to indicate that they're no longer valid and should be regenerated if needed. Whereas there are some other kinds of metadata which should not be deleted if the file is modified. -- Jamie