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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>,
	Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 22:23:47 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010503222347.A26495@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010503205754.A26313@metastasis.f00f.org> <E14vFjM-0005Gx-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14vFjM-0005Gx-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:49:02AM +0100

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:49:02AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

    No collisions. There are other good reasons you dont want to do
    forks on files that way (you need to enumerate them but if you
    make them directories all hell breaks loose).

Hmm... so how else do you support n-forks cleanly preserving existing
semantics? I'm not sure I like Linus' suggestion, but I can't think
of anything better.



 --cw

(On the whole, I think forks are horrible enough that we shouldn't
 encourage them further than we do already with .AppleDouble, and
 similar solutions... but, opinions vary greatly here)

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-24 21:02 [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer Matt_Domsch
2001-04-24 21:59 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-24 23:16   ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-27  4:31     ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-27  5:24       ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-01  1:27         ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-01  8:46           ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-01 16:53             ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-01 20:32               ` Alan Cox
2001-05-02 15:03                 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 15:54                   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03  8:57                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-03  9:49                   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 10:23                     ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-05-01 14:38           ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-03  7:32         ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-03  7:51           ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 16:32             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-11 22:49               ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 23:00                 ` Steven Willoughby
2001-05-12  2:20                 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-12  4:21                   ` Jonathan Lundell
     [not found] <p0510030db7221c090810@[10.128.7.49]=FE2>
2001-05-12 11:00 ` Kai Henningsen

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