Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread)

["John D. Heintz" <jheintz@pobox.com>]

David Masover wrote:
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> John D. Heintz wrote:
> | David,
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> | I think you might be onto something, but doing this manually for each
> | file isn't viable (in my opinion).
> 
> It applies recursively.  Let's assume for a moment that /..foo is a
> directory containing pseudo-files, metadata, or whatever the current
> term is, for the file '/'.  By creating the file /..foo/something as a
> symlink to /..foo/<some long path>/something, you automatically create
> /bar/..foo/something, which is a link to /bar/..foo/<same long
> path>/something.
> 
> | What I think might work is applying symlinks to all files hierarchically
> | so that all "*/nsa/*" names resolve to "*/nsa.gov/security/*".
> 
> Just what I described above, only it is local to the tree I apply it to,
> and files deeper in the hierarchy take precedence.  So, for example, if
> I create a link manually for /bar/..foo/something that points somewhere
> else, then /bar and all subdirs (and subfiles) of /bar contain that same
> link, instead of the one created for /.
> 

Thanks for the explanation and I like the idea. Being able to define a 
symlink and have it recursively apply might be exactly what is needed here.

Is this behavior currently part of Reiser4? I don't remember seeing it 
anywhere, but I do remember reading something about inheritence being 
needed for various features. Is this the same as inheritence?

Thanks,
John Heintz