From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:13:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1094051610.2777.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <412E4999.1050504@sover.net> <9FuGrTY3cDD@3247.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <9FuGrTY3cDD@3247.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Claus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 12:01, Claus F=C3=A4rber wrote: > A simple convention that meta data files start with, say ".$", would be =20 > enough. POSIX/SuS don't permit this. The only "free" namespace is that starting "//" (and not as some desktops seem to think foo://). Remember always send GUI desktop users files called http://read.me .. its fun 8) The // doesn't really help because you don't want extensions at the path top.=20 Another interesting question btw with substreams of a file is what the semantics of fchown, fstat, fchmod, fchdir etc are, or of mounting a file over a substream. Alan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267294AbUIAQZ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:25:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267237AbUIAQW2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:22:28 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:45707 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266463AbUIAQPs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:15:48 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Alan Cox To: Claus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9FuGrTY3cDD@3247.org> References: <412E4999.1050504@sover.net> <9FuGrTY3cDD@3247.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1094051610.2777.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:13:32 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 12:01, Claus Färber wrote: > A simple convention that meta data files start with, say ".$", would be > enough. POSIX/SuS don't permit this. The only "free" namespace is that starting "//" (and not as some desktops seem to think foo://). Remember always send GUI desktop users files called http://read.me .. its fun 8) The // doesn't really help because you don't want extensions at the path top. Another interesting question btw with substreams of a file is what the semantics of fchown, fstat, fchmod, fchdir etc are, or of mounting a file over a substream. Alan