On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:21:14AM -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote: > > I don't think this is the right way to go. FreeBSD already has extended > > attribute support for which we've added VOPs. Whatever you do needs to be > > compatabile with them. > > Extended attributes have a different design goal. They are meant for > easily lookup of small data and the interface doesn't scale well for > large data. IIRC they have essentially only been used for ACLs and > similiar meta data. > > That said, you can easily expose EAs as subfiles, but please don't try > to do it the other way around. I agree that an EA implementation that is designed to store small blobs of data won't cut it for things that people want to do w/ subfiles. I believe we want two implementations. The thing I believe we don't want is two name spaces. Take care, Bill
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