From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:54:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523135432.GX4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705231523.55306.philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:23:54PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote:
> How about some special node in eg. /proc (or a new filesystem)?
> Eg.
> /fileAsDir/etc/passwd/owner ...
> would work for all *files*. For directories we do not know whether we're still
> climbing the hierarchy or would like to see meta-data.
So we need to make *anything* done anywhere in the namespace to modify
the dentry tree on that fs. Could you spell "fuck, NO"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 18:48 [RFC PATCH] file as directory Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-22 22:10 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 6:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 7:03 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 7:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 7:36 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 8:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 8:29 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 9:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:58 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:16 ` Jan Blunck
2007-05-23 9:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 12:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-05-23 12:40 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 9:21 ` Jan Blunck
2007-05-23 9:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 12:07 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-28 14:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-22 23:26 ` Shaya Potter
2007-05-23 6:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:51 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 10:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 10:24 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 11:39 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 12:16 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 13:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 13:51 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 14:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 15:06 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 15:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 15:37 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 15:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 13:23 ` Ph. Marek
2007-05-23 13:54 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-05-23 12:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-23 13:20 ` Jaroslav Sykora
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