On Friday, January 06, 2006 10:31:10 AM -0500 Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At the same time the directory format is extended to support Unicode we should also make changes to support multiple data streams per file and a method of supporting additional file attributes.
Those are changes to the vnode metadata, not the directory structure. We'll do them, but the directory changes have been designed and merely lack implementation, whereas the vnode metadata changes will require changes in the way the fileserver stores that data and new RPC's, neither of which have been designed. The two sets of changes are orthogonal; I see no need to do them "at the same time" or make support for one dependent on the other.
Getting a directory format that would be backward compatible with existing clients was a tricky bit of work, but I think we succeeded. Doing that for vnode indexes will also be tricky. This will almost certainly require another lengthy design session. But this is getting a bit off-topic for -info...
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