Re: [PATCH - EXPERIMENTAL] files with forks in the VFS

[Hans Reiser]

Neil Brown wrote:

> As a followup to the multi-branching threads about reiser4, I would
> like to present this patch for discussion and exploration.
> It implements files with fork (which are quite different to files that
> provide different views via a subdirectory structure).
>  
How are they different?  Having a distinguished file is consistent with 
the reiser4 approach.

> See Documentation/filesystems/forks.txt (after applying the patch) for more detail.
>
> This is not "how it should be done" but rather "how it could be done",
> and is intended primarily to provide a base for experimentation and
> exploration. 
>
> Below is a sample of what can be done, and then the patch.
>
> NeilBrown
>  

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