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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>,
Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: xattr names for unprivileged stacking?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:51:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpegvqvns+PULwyaN2oaZAJZKA_SgKxqgpP=nvab2tuyX4NA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200831113705.GA14765@casper.infradead.org>
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:37 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> As I said to Dave, you and I have a strong difference of opinion here.
> I think that what you are proposing is madness. You're making it too
> flexible which comes with too much opportunity for abuse.
Such as?
> I just want
> to see alternate data streams for the same filename in order to support
> existing use cases. You seem to be able to want to create an entire
> new world inside a file, and that's just too confusing.
To whom? I'm sure users of ancient systems with a flat directory
found directory trees very confusing. Yet it turned out that the
hierarchical system beat the heck out of the flat one.
Thanks,
Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-31 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 10:55 Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-07-28 13:08 ` Greg Kurz
2020-07-28 13:55 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-04 11:28 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-08-04 13:51 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-12 11:18 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-08-12 13:34 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-12 14:33 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-08-13 9:01 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-16 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-16 23:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-17 0:29 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-17 10:37 ` file forks vs. xattr (was: xattr names for unprivileged stacking?) Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-23 23:40 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-24 15:30 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-24 20:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-24 21:26 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-08-24 22:29 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-08-25 15:12 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-25 15:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-27 12:02 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-27 12:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 13:48 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-27 14:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 14:23 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-27 14:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 14:44 ` Al Viro
2020-08-27 16:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-08-27 16:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-28 9:11 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-28 14:46 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-08-27 15:22 ` xattr names for unprivileged stacking? Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-27 22:24 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-29 16:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-29 16:13 ` Al Viro
2020-08-29 17:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-29 18:04 ` Al Viro
2020-08-29 18:22 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-29 19:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-29 19:25 ` Al Viro
2020-08-30 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-30 19:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 7:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-31 11:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 11:51 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2020-08-31 13:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 14:21 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-31 14:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-08-31 14:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 14:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-09-01 3:34 ` Dave Chinner
2020-09-01 14:52 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-09-01 15:14 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-09-02 5:19 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-31 18:02 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-09-01 3:48 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-29 19:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-29 19:40 ` Al Viro
2020-08-29 20:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 14:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-08-31 14:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-31 16:11 ` Christian Schoenebeck
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