FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes
Nicholas Miell
nmiell at comcast.net
Tue Jan 4 02:05:14 GMT 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 17:48 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> What you're neglecting is that there is a LARGE class of metadata where
> the important thing is that you store them; if you don't know what they
> are you merely ignore them and keep them as-is.
>
> There is no place for those in the current design.
That's what the user namespace is for -- the kernel has no interest in
its contents, it just stores it as-is for apps that do.
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>
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