On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:08:59PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:53:28PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > You ignored everything I said during the discussion of xattrs about how > > there is no need to have attributes when you can just have files and > > directories, and that xattrs reflected a complete ignorance of name > > space design principles. > > Actually in most of the discussion you simply didn't participate. While > xattrs might not be the nicest interface they have the advantag of not > breaking the SuS assumption of what directories vs files are, and they > do not break the Linux O_DIRECTORY semantics that are defined and need > to solve real-world races either.
Reiser4 may have a mount option for whoose who like or have to use traditional O_DIRECTORY semantics. There would be no /metas under non-directories, if user wants that. [ ... ] -- Alex.
