Resier4 and streams

[Thomas Mieslinger]

reading the solaris 9 fsattr manpage it looks like Sun has implemented a
similar technology for storing extended attributes in their ufs filesystem.
it is fully recusive so that files in the attribute directory can have
attributes.

Thomas

davec-b at rogers.com schrieb am 25.08.2004 15:36:53:

>    This was also a feature of the "port" research operating
> system at U of Waterloo.  They found it very useful for
> managing source trees (foo.c could optionally be a directory
> with intel, mips and motorola branches), but also a "lock-in"
> feature.
>    The feature made it hard to port apps which knew about the
> feature (:-()
>
> --dave
>
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 01:28, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >
> >>The linux filesystem crew is not happy..... I'm on the list, they're
> >>already moaning about this.
> >
> >
> > Then we just need to show that it is a useful features by implementing
> > support for samba asap :-)
> >
> > Simo.
> >
>