From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:48:08 -0700 Message-ID: <42C37988.2020605@namesys.com> References: <200506290509.j5T595I6010576@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <87hdfgvqvl.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <8783be6605062914341bcff7cb@mail.gmail.com> <42C3615A.9020600@namesys.com> <871x6kv4zd.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <871x6kv4zd.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hubert Chan Cc: Horst von Brand , Kyle Moffett , David Masover , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Hubert Chan wrote: >On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:04:58 -0700, Hans Reiser said: > > > >>Ross Biro wrote: >> >> >>>How is directories as files logically any different than putting all >>>data into .data files and making all files directories (yes you would >>>need some sort of special handling for files that were really called >>>.data). >>> >>> > > > >>Add to this that you make .data the default if the file within the >>directory is not specified, >> >> > >It's sort of like the way web servers handle index.html, for those who >think it's a stupid idea. (Of course, some people may still think it's >a stupid idea... ;-) ) > > > Good analogy. >>and define a stanadard set of names for metafiles, and you've got the >>essential idea, and any differences are details. >> >> > > >