From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Larsson Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:17:48 +0200 Message-ID: <412E618C.2020708@nada.kth.se> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826193617.GA21248@arlut.utexas.edu> <20040826201639.GA5733@mail.shareable.org> <1093551956.13881.34.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <16686.23053.559951.815883@thebsh.namesys.com> <1093556917.13881.78.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1093556917.13881.78.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Christophe Saout Cc: Nikita Danilov , Jamie Lokier , Jonathan Abbey , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Christophe Saout wrote: >Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 01:45 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov: > > > >> > At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them. >> >>They do. >> >> > ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas. >> >>That's because lookup for "bar" performs symlink resolution. >> >> > >So I can't access them and it is pointless. ;-) > >BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think >this makes sense. :) > > > I prefer this one: hepburn:/# mount /dev/sda3 on / type reiser4 (rw) hepburn:/# touch apa hepburn:/# chmod +x apa hepburn:/# cd apa hepburn:/apa# ls ls: reading directory .: Not a directory So there is already file-as-dir with legacy "ls" - and it works just like people seem to want it to do with legacy apps. Not at all. /Emil