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From: Dirk Steinberg <dws@steinbergnet.net>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:11:21 +0100
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On Monday 22 November 2004 19:52, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >(Hint - "file as directory" broke a number of programs that didn't
> >expect that a file *could* be a directory, when run on a reiser4
> >filesystem...)
>
> It broke extraordinarily few.

I know from personal experience that it *does* break Acrobat Reader,
which, unfortunately, is binary-only and also a programm that I 
use quite often. For me this means I cannot use reiser4 (as root fs anyway)
without metas disabled.

How about making metas a mount option? Right now disabling metas 
requires patching the source.

/Dirk Steinberg