Jonathan Briggs writes: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 00:19 +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > Hubert Chan writes: > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:24:17 +0400, Nikita Danilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > > > > Not exactly. As a matter of fact, ACL and EA support was already > > > > implemented in reiser4. But it used standard xattrs API to interface > > > > to the user-land, and it was decided that reiser4 should go > > > > sys_reiser4() route instead. So, it was reaped. > > > > > > Does this mean that file-as-dir has also been abandoned? > > > > Sorry, it seems I was too vague. It's exactly the opposite: standard > > xattr API was abandoned in favour of accessing EAs and ACLs through > > pseudo files. The latter method is not implemented yet, and I don't know > > how stable sys_reiser4() API is currently. Hans is the proper person to > > ask. > > There is no reason not to support the standard xattr calls, whether it > is done in-kernel or in the C library. The pseudo files would also be > good, but several programs already use the current xattr support. > > Namesys may not want to add the support themselves but I hope they do > not reject contributed code for it.
Well, this song has been sung many times already. :-) Hans has strong opinion about xattr API (which, indeed, is not a paragon of design beauty by a large margin). > -- > Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > eSoft, Inc. Nikita.
