Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Spam wrote:
>   Also,  you  are thinking _very_ narrowly now. There are thousands of
>   file  formats.  Implementing  the  support  for  meta-data/ streams/
>   attributes  in  the  kernel  will  make  it  possible  to  use  this
>   generically for all files.

And how many different formats will be used for thumbnails? How many
different names to indicate a summary for a document?

Having the ability to add attributes standardizes a way to access that
data, but not the format and naming of those attributes. It could be
a step closer to a more flexible way of handling storage, but you have
to realize that a lot (if not most) of the work still needs to be done
in userspace.

Wichert.

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