Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:08:39PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:27:22AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> >     > Property lists *do* solve "everything", for the same reasons
> >     > that hard drives solve "everything", even though the data that
> >     > is stored is not specified in their documentation.
> > 
> > Abstractly, all that attributes give you in the filesystem is a way to
> > bundle a bunch of names under a single common name such that a single
> > inode can be used to address them all.  Directories already do that.
> 
> That costs you atomicity, specifically atomic update.

(Yes, that really is the whole point. Think ACLs)

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