From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: File as a directory - VFS Changes Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:13:07 -0500 Message-ID: <42A20B53.8090807@slaphack.com> References: <17050.62052.318426.711322@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <429C7D0A.6040200@namesys.com> <200505311630.j4VGUeIt007432@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1117558515.13252.21.camel@localhost> <429C97F9.8000009@namesys.com> <1117559594.13252.26.camel@localhost> <429CAC86.3080308@namesys.com> <1117573285.13252.63.camel@localhost> <1117573714.13252.69.camel@localhost> <17052.59096.785042.935234@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1117580508.25017.21.camel@localhost> <17053.36948.892227.432434@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <17053.37172.885941.857716@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1117634812.26560.33.camel@titania.zlynx.org> <17053.51551.825703.450388@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1117640452.12866.9.camel@localhost> <17053.61465.359382.791640@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1117652606.28827.7.camel@localhost> <17054.57795.295945.256623@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1117737334.9224.51.camel@localhost> <17055.39986.10130.284697@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <42A099F6.20208@nam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <17058.1217.672209.187032@gargle.gargle.HOWL> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Hans Reiser , Jonathan Briggs , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Alexander G. M. Smith" , leocomerford@gmail.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Nate Diller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nikita Danilov wrote: [...] > It seems to me that in the domains where proposed designs are > applicable, symlinks already provide viable solution. It's a little late in the game for me to jump in, but can someone else comment on this? Is this a "viable" solution in the same way that gnome VFS is a "viable" solution to the problem of transparently handling zipfiles and such? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQqILU3gHNmZLgCUhAQLJKg//a+czcmSVqsDXcDKgAJx+3iCfsDeJRmKd sZJt0vIBD6EEOQLrx7dnADkPiSg5KBY/6fJCq4eb/1PyugO61iDFavoMW13gztJ3 WuodCrni3OPgzQhU640rkURGR5RcM9efd0pdG/9gA6jQrjGt5B/UYdL7cZOa5PAa yb6+SdfQXqyi2cwpzWY3glZy8260Lk/J910j16a2IwugG9jC+q2YXmEfuaM4feib rgE+79a9a54FnxGsn+KYcHvRbQyxT6FrDhA5G6TN5KXyduqgi5CWyY1Fu44tOnwR P5Css4se/fY7vguBaebzF/qcGNZ3R8YqQbimdgmxgycrbFoz4sKX/IO3uPKXu9AO yK8YHmutPBxs9O1iorz3niX0KA9OE26IGb0TmOea97p5dyGG3LKqDIDj2RaCzr4O D2t1ErMlJQhSO5TevzVLMWrBVsS8B845ML2DrJMS0M0gaAZ9KRqKHo2vL3rpKl+R oUukFEnfi7anIClMc1TNkycRYJfOUlvPkjHEoPXrgLyjlbJ2raPBzTSSEO02dNgm eITAKAKCY8PQDeUnB1omCAER3mbNTBwi+f1F0UiQZzUcLJNAVyNyuSzCCJHoRoO3 39kmTgv0E3lh8tcsplMIysCWTTSqQUPbF/N07u/B20oqQ47Nd6Ttt6kADNNvjXP6 2+4158WYoxc= =Vc/s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----