Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Grzegorz JaÅkiewicz]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:17:43 +0200, Tonnerre <tonnerre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:02:24AM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> > I can see the argument for having the equivalent of Content-type or
> > Content-transfer-encoding as a named stream though.
> 
> Why having them as  named streams if we can get them  as xattrs for no
> additional pain? (Since fileutils would  have to be changed anyway, we
> can even make cp copy and emacs update xattrs.)

Because some of as requested to be able to open tar,iso, and few other
formats this way. So I can simply access it with cat (as a dir/file).



-- 
GJ
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