-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday July 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Stefan Smietanowski wrote: >> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> >>> >>>>Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, >>>>but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. >>> >>> >>>Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ? >>> >>>Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo >>> >>>This should be suit both camps I'd think? >> >>You still need to figure out the parent of "foo", which isn't >>necessarily easy, especially considering that even if we store a link to >>the parent, it will be inside the metadata. Then you have a >>chicken-and-egg situation. >> >>Both camps seem to want to allow easy access to the metadata of a file, >>whether we're given that file as an inode or as a pathname. That's why >>I suggested /meta/vfs and /meta/inode -- sometimes I want to look up a >>file by name, and sometimes by inode, but either way, I should be able >>to get its metadata. > > > Well, it's not really 'as an inode or as a pathname'. It is 'as an > open file descriptor or as a path name' which is an important > difference. > > Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I > don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open > "/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then > /proc/self/fds/N-meta
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