From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Jekel Subject: Reiser4 & Files/Directories question Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:43:32 -0700 Message-ID: <43208654.7040502@sourcelabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Newbie question as I'm evaluating Reiser4 as a storage solution for a project I'm working on. It appears Reiser4 has the ability to have a file name be both the name for the file data and a directory. Can I take advantage of this at the application level? For instance, can I use python to access the file data directly, and access the directory information as well to open any attribute files I might want to put in there? Or is that functionality only available through non-posix calls from file system plugins and such. I was interested in the design of the livingxml.net solution from the testimonials page, but that site is no longer available. Is there a project or design document somewhere that summarizes the best way of using reiser4 as a database of content with additional metadata for each document? Forgive me if this is answered somewhere. I've searched some mailing list archives site and couldn't find the exact answer. Thanks, Ross