In article <[email protected]>,
David Masover <[email protected]> wrote:
>Markus Törnqvist wrote:
>> Anyway, I don't really like the metafs thing.
>>
>> To access the data, you still need to refactor userspace,
>> so that's not a real advantage. Doing lookups from /meta
>> all the time, instead of in the file-as-dir-whatever...
>
>I don't really see the disadvantage.
>
>Also, metafs means much less of a fight to get people to adopt the whole
>meta concept, because it can be done in a POSIX-compliant way which
>doesn't break tar.
>
>File-as-dir is nice if you're using meta files, but it causes lots of
>unexpected weirdness. I don't think metafs costs us much in
>performance, and with one or two shell scripts, it wouldn't cost us that
>much efficiency on the commandline.
file-as-dir is an innovation. Metafs is an ugly compromise.
Mike.
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