Re: readdir loses renamed files

[Jan Engelhardt]

>I read over in reiserfs-list that the reason for the crazy renaming is
>to store "attributes" as part of the filename.  Why not just store them
>as EAs as they were intended?  With the large inode patches (posted here
>a couple of times already) the cost of storing EAs is negligible.

Well, reiser stores attributes (at least ACLs) in files.


Jan Engelhardt
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