Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> writes:

> Maybe if a finite amount of data was kept in the inode too this
> wouldn't be as bad.  Something "simpler" might be to just allocate
> another fragment and use that for "funny" data _if needed_.

This is (I think) the way it's done in DEC UNIX, extra `meta data' is
kept in ordinary disk blocks, that (I assume) are written
synchronously do disk. ACLs are implemented on top of this.

> ps: should this have stayed on developers and not migrated to
> tech-kern?  Or the other way around?

Care to make a summary of the discussion prior to this move?

/Johan