In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Markus Törnqvist wrote: >> Anyway, I don't really like the metafs thing. >> >> To access the data, you still need to refactor userspace, >> so that's not a real advantage. Doing lookups from /meta >> all the time, instead of in the file-as-dir-whatever... > >I don't really see the disadvantage. > >Also, metafs means much less of a fight to get people to adopt the whole >meta concept, because it can be done in a POSIX-compliant way which >doesn't break tar. > >File-as-dir is nice if you're using meta files, but it causes lots of >unexpected weirdness. I don't think metafs costs us much in >performance, and with one or two shell scripts, it wouldn't cost us that >much efficiency on the commandline.
file-as-dir is an innovation. Metafs is an ugly compromise. Mike. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
