Horst von Brand wrote:
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:41:00 -0400, Chet Hosey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
[...]
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?
If it's the general info that's associated with the file, and may even
be stored inside the file, then yes, that's fair.
Although I could certainly imagine foo/.../descriptions being a
directory that's world-writable, allowing each user to maintain their
own file inside of it. You can even set these per-user descriptions to
be stored somewhere else, like the user's home directory, and that could
work for CDs.
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?
Why is that a problem? Put it in a script. Mount each user's unionfs
at boot.
And it's "something like unionfs" -- maybe it's a feature of metafs or
reiserfs that we haven't thought of yet. It certainly can't be unionfs
as it stands, as unionfs doesn't work on top of any reiser.
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