alan wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote: > >> alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The >>> MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked >>> filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea. >>> (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with >>> non-forked filesystems.) >> >> What's the conceptual difference between forks and extended user >> attributes? > > Forks tend to contain more than just extended attributes. They contain > all sorts of other meta-data including icons, descriptions, author > information, copyright data, and whatever else can be shoveled into them > by the author/user. And that makes them different from extended attributes, how? Both of these really are nothing but ad hocky syntactic sugar for directories, sometimes combined with in-filesystem support for small data items. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
