On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. There's a good discussion of the issues involved in my LCA 2006 presentation.... which doesn't seem to be on the LCA 2006 site. Hrm. I'll have to ask that this be fixed. In any case, here it is: http://thunk.org/tytso/forkdepot.odp - Ted - 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
