Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the

Hans Reiser (reiser@idiom.com)
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:31:35 -0700


Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> In message <199809030216.MAA11181@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch
> writes
> :
> +-----
> | OK, fine. So if the metadata requirements are demanding, as you
> | indicate, then just put the different streams into separate files. The
> | FS has good code to do all this, why do it again?
> +--->8
>
> Again: because you have to locate all these chunks to move the file to
> another system. Counterintuitive. (And I have to do the support after some
> luser does this and then can't figure out why their file is screwed up :-)

Put the files in a directory.

-Hans

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