Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status)

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:44:18 +0200

> 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 :-)

Again: To access file chunks by standard tools (vi, emacs, od) you would
need to make all of them aware of the new structure. Counterintuitive :-)

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug."


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