On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:22:56AM -0500, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/17/2015 10:05 AM, Niels de Vos wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:05:04PM +0530, Ravishankar N wrote: > > > >> But yes, if we do want to expose this information via the mount > >> point, then maybe /mount/.meta is a good place. > > > > Indeed, .meta would be better :) > > Can you be certain there isn't some application somewhere that uses > /mount/.meta ? > > I would prefer that we not litter the namespace with magic filenames. > Any more than it's already littered. That is why I was suggesting .glusterfs. There would not be many applications that use this directory. However, .meta would be more suitable because we already have the meta xlator: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/done/Features/meta.md I'm thinking of extending this to include at least an AUTHORS file. Niels > > I'd prefer an xattr over a file. And something that's sufficiently > random that it won't collide (high probability) with an application > file. E.g. a uuid created with `uuidgen -r` > > - -- > > Kaleb > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWctNJAAoJEDcw3UmJzK6LqBwH/AxqUtxvn8fWF/SqlLc4GekA > Ukpa/4i/VBjoLQLFLkS6HJw3e60ZaE5QnDWXyYPZPQXseQuxIC971rVI7JQgsOCA > HbrkNirkZ45LHLD1g7XO9+hJkObXF3aXAvsugmQByt4QZpVY3Rmz9gUjsH33WTCF > BFlOeYoGK75onWtK3haCYUJqEqlgXQmPXS0lCOJt+yXzznpF86G6ShKuf1GQvGzy > ugVQx8HRLsqY7Zvbf9n7ve8tLtCV22xR1uU3lUBqJFbVo9aum1rRX4H6QMb7M6qj > aFld1na0YeQOYG6HoRIdgQzwzbRzQZi1i3z8JJXRj8XQOdmA+XzvzP2JXOEPusA= > =V/id > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > pub 2048R/89CCAE8B 2011-10-04 Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx> > sub 2048R/AFFECD68 2011-10-04 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
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