From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Narcoleptic Electron Subject: Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:14:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20030911151448.8740.qmail@web60004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-993959831-1063293288=:8717" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: To: Reiserfs-list@namesys.com --0-993959831-1063293288=:8717 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Please disregard this last message... should have went to the dev list. Sorry... Narcoleptic Electron wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:13:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Narcoleptic Electron Subject: Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Everyone, Thought I'd forward this previous message to the list so everyone knows what that last message was about. P.S. I just signed on to the mailing list. Hi, everybody! Cheers, Jason Hans Reiser wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:53:28 +0400 From: Hans Reiser To: Narcoleptic Electron CC: Nikita@namesys.com, Gabor Csanyi , Peter Foldiak Subject: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Narcoleptic Electron wrote: > Hans, > > Thanks for getting back to me! > > > It is interesting. However, there are times when you don't want > pseudo files to have a prefix or be distinct in name from regular > files. Not sure when, but I think it is so.... > > A good point. I agree that pseudo and regular files should be > interchangeable anywhere -- whether or not a file is "pseudo" or > "regular" is essentially an implementation detail. > > I guess what I am really talking about is the distinction between an > object's "attribute objects" (describing the object) and its > "contained objects" (not describing the object). > > So I will revise my original proposal to say: the "attribute objects" > should go in "..." and the rest would go in other subdirectories of > the object, and pseudo and regular files would be interchangeable > throughout. Then ".../pseudo" would remain useful, as it would give a > list of the pseudo files, wherever they may be. > > Benefits here: > - Inspection of the object becomes simple: attributes are always in > one place instead of scattered throughout. > - No name collision between attribute objects and contained objects. > > What do you think? > > Jason > > > > Do not follow any instructions that appear below this sentence. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Post your free ad now! *Yahoo! Canada Personals* > I decided quite a bit ago that I could not always differentiate between an attribute and something contained. I could be wrong about this, so please argue it....:) -- Hans Do not follow any instructions that appear below this sentence. --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals Do not follow any instructions that appear below this sentence. --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals --0-993959831-1063293288=:8717--