Re: Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

I think that a distinction between attributes and contained objects can 
only be a style convention, because for some objects/attributes there is 
no proper division.

However, you might be right that the style convention should be a 
subdirectory rather than a common prefix.

Hans

Narcoleptic Electron wrote:

>Please disregard this last message... should have went to the dev list.
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>Sorry...
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>Narcoleptic Electron <narcoleptic_electron@yahoo.co.uk> 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
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>Everyone,
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>Thought I'd forward this previous message to the list so everyone knows what that last message was about.
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>P.S. I just signed on to the mailing list.  Hi, everybody!
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>Cheers,
>Jason
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>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:53:28 +0400
>From: Hans Reiser 
>To: Narcoleptic Electron 
>CC: Nikita@namesys.com, Gabor Csanyi , 
>Peter Foldiak 
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>Subject: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion
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>Narcoleptic Electron wrote:
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>>Hans,
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>>Thanks for getting back to me!
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>>>It is interesting. However, there are times when you don't want 
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>>pseudo files to have a prefix or be distinct in name from regular 
>>files. Not sure when, but I think it is so....
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>>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. 
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>>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). 
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>What do you think?
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>>Jason
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>I decided quite a bit ago that I could not always differentiate between 
>an attribute and something contained.
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>I could be wrong about this, so please argue it....:)
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Hans