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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation |
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:04:55 +0100 |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:11:45AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That's why tagline (y amigos) is attractive. What we really want is a
> virtual file system (ie, dentry) that allows attaching arbitrary
> properties to a create a logical file identity, a "resource fork", as
> MacOS has. We don't have that, so put it in the file.
>
> Note that in the Unix context the obvious robust way to manage a
> resource fork is in an inode (contents are arbitrary, remember---in
> XEmacs, we'd like to put our portable dumpfile, typically ~2MB, in the
> resource fork). Thinking that way, Tom's .arch-ids implementation is
> not at all space inefficient!
ext2/xfs extended attributes would work well here. We're not all
_that_ far from it being feasible - another year or so should do the
trick.
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/28
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation, Bill Petheram, 2003/08/28
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation, Bruce Stephens, 2003/08/28
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation, Bill Petheram, 2003/08/28