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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: File as a directory - VFS Changes
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:59:37 -0700
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To: Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>, "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>, leocomerford@gmail.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ninja@slaphack.com

What happens when you unlink the True Name?

Hans

Jonathan Briggs wrote:

>
>You can avoid cycles by redefining the problem.
>
>Every file or "data object" has one single True Name which is their
>inode or OID.  Each data object then has one or more "names" as
>properties.  Names are either single strings with slash separators for
>directories, or each directory element is a unique object in an object
>list.  Directories then become queries that return the set of objects
>holding that directory name.  The query results are of course cached and
>updated whenever a name property changes.
>
>Now there are no cycles, although a naive Unix "find" program could get
>stuck in a loop.
>  
>