Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
Kristian Koehntopp (kris@koehntopp.de)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:25:22 +0200
In netuse.lists.linux-kernel you write:
>The question then becomes whether to also have per-file preference attributes
>in every file a user touches, or to have some kind of database per user with
>all their file preferences in it (with all the associated difficulties of
>keeping it in sync, identifying files, etc, etc).
This is not a question. The first "solution" is a system administrators
nightmare. Think new users, think deleted users, think backups, think
restores. It hurts.
Kristian
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