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Message-ID: <20070619070507.GB9177@thunk.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:05:07 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, alan <alan@...eserver.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Jack Stone <jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:48:15PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > Did you ever code up forkdepot ? Just wondering ? There is a partial implementation lieing around somewhere, but there were a number of problems we ran into that were discussed in the slidedeck. Basically, if the only program accessing the files containing forks was the Samba program calling forkdepot library, it worked fine. But if there were other programs (or NFS servers) that were potentially deleting files, moving files around, the things fell apart fairly quickly. > Just because I now agree with you that streams are > a bad idea doesn't mean the pressure to support them > in some way in Samba has gone away :-). What, even with Winfs delaying Microsoft Longwait by years before finally being flushed? :-) - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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