From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268781AbUHZLiX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268765AbUHZLfw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:35:52 -0400 Received: from levante.wiggy.net ([195.85.225.139]:12191 "EHLO mx1.wiggy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268742AbUHZL1R (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:27:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:27:16 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman To: Spam Cc: Andrew Morton , jra@samba.org, 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: <20040826112716.GJ2612@wiggy.net> Mail-Followup-To: Spam , Andrew Morton , jra@samba.org, 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 References: <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1939276887.20040826114028@tnonline.net> <20040826024956.08b66b46.akpm@osdl.org> <839984491.20040826122025@tnonline.net> <20040826032457.21377e94.akpm@osdl.org> <742303812.20040826125114@tnonline.net> <20040826035500.00b5df56.akpm@osdl.org> <1453776111.20040826131547@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1453776111.20040826131547@tnonline.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Previously Spam wrote: > Also, you are thinking _very_ narrowly now. There are thousands of > file formats. Implementing the support for meta-data/ streams/ > attributes in the kernel will make it possible to use this > generically for all files. And how many different formats will be used for thumbnails? How many different names to indicate a summary for a document? Having the ability to add attributes standardizes a way to access that data, but not the format and naming of those attributes. It could be a step closer to a more flexible way of handling storage, but you have to realize that a lot (if not most) of the work still needs to be done in userspace. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.