From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:09:52 -0400 Message-ID: <413486B0.4050101@sun.com> References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-reply-to: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: > > Why Openat Sucks: > > because you can't go cat filenameA/metas/permissions > > filenameB/permissions > > If cat doesn't work, then we are suffering exactly the problem with > namespace fragmentation that this whole scheme was invented to avoid. > Sure you can. All you need to do is fix your shell. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNIavdQs4kOxk3/MRAmvAAJ9sZfEgIOfINZsT23pa+Y3nQ4lfMACgmN3q sdgPzBUg9i/c+roWDrXq5BI= =poSJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----