From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tonnerre Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:08:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20040831190814.GA15493@thundrix.ch> References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> <200408312055.56335.v13@priest.com> <36793180.20040831201736@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36793180.20040831201736@tnonline.net> List-Id: To: Spam Cc: V13 , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , reiserfs-list@namesys.com --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Salut, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Spam wrote: > How are things done on Windows platforms when there are files and > directories with the same name? In Unix that is imposible. How does > it work for environments like Cygwin etc? What happen to tools > that run in them? In NTFS it's illegal IIRC. At least the fs correction utilities complain about a block being assigned to two files. Same with HFS+. Sometimes there seem to be several things with the same name. But that's because of hidden extensions (.lnk for example). I'm talking out of the book here, maybe the real-world implementations of Windows are different. I can't tell, I only used Windows once to ssh into a screwed-up router. Tonnerre --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNMyd/4bL7ovhw40RAiIcAJ9p8jLgJeKhIFuWqVmJ/ShSiz6L+ACgwTVN N/3DwpJuNBNtx2Sjb9xdZ8A= =ER/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--