Re: Versioning file system

[alan]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others.  The
> > MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked
> > filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea.
> > (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with
> > non-forked filesystems.)
>
> What's the conceptual difference between forks and extended user attributes?

Forks tend to contain more than just extended attributes.  They contain 
all sorts of other meta-data including icons, descriptions, author 
information, copyright data, and whatever else can be shoveled into them 
by the author/user.

--
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
                                  - Alan Cox
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