[haiku-development] Re: FileMapDisk aka IMAGE.BE
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:15:18 +0200 CEST
> "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > How could that be dangerous? And the inefficiency just means one
> > > more
> > > layer which wouldn't be that bad (if it has to go there, it'll
> > > need
> > > to load stuff from a slow CD anyway).
> > Hmm deadlocks maybe ? Even with O_NOCACHE or whichever, it might
> > have
> > issues I'd rather avoid.
>
> It doesn't. That was just a bug in the way BeOS worked, apart from
> the
> extra layer, there is nothing to worry about.
Fine then, I'll try the simple way first, and slap you if it doesn't
work ;)
> > > And then, I think an attribute layer for iso9660 would be the
> > > better
> > > solution for CD booting, at least, so that the user can see the
> > > files
> > > on the disk.
> > > The fs layering is already in place, all what's missing is an
> > > example
> > > implementation :-)
> > Right...
>
> Hehe :-)
Also, I'd first want to come up with a consensus on a common storage
format for xattrs with the fd.o folks. They have a standard for it but
it doesn't exactly fix our semantics (though parts do).
François.
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