Hans Reiser wrote:
> In the longterm for reiserfs I want to implement dynamic stat data
> with arbitrary fields and arbitrary lengths to them. I also want the
> nterface to them to be via /, as in /etc/lilo.conf/modtime.
> I want stat data to be inheritable from the parent, so that I can
> break passwd into lots of little files, and then I can reference
> /etc/passwd/reiser/shell/modtime, and get the time that reiser
> modified his shell to be /usr/bin/fortune.
>
> Hans
This sounds very nice. I'm guessing you could design this so it could be used in an object-oriented way. Ah! I got it (I think). You can have classes of files. These classes will have certain "subfiles". So a might have
balloon.gif/colordepth
or
john.doc/language.
But the cool thing would be
joe.txt/search,
where search is a member function of the textfile class. Here of course is the trouble. How do you get multiuser capability? Grumble.
David Feuer
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