From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Interview with Hans on KernelTrap Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:20:39 -0700 Message-ID: <43299F57.4080008@namesys.com> References: <878xy0sy0d.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <432820E8.9080201@st-andrews.ac.uk> <43288119.9000605@namesys.com> <43292AA8.1050304@st-andrews.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <43292AA8.1050304@st-andrews.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Foldiak Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Peter Foldiak wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > >>> The user (or tools) don't even have to know which is the "real" file, >>> which are "parts of real files" and which are "concatenations of real >>> files". This is really good for namespace unification across >>> part-whole hierarchies. If you are required to use /..../ in the >>> middle, it breaks this I think. Could we get rid of requiring "...." >>> in the middle? (Would that break too much?) Peter >>> >> >> In this specific instance, yes, but other pseudofiles would still >> need it. >> >> > Sure, you can have only one "default" behaviour. (For instance, you > would also need some metafiles to specify the details of how exactly > the concatenation should be done, (e.g. what ordering (or structure) > to use, whether to put something in between the files, etc.) in > addition to all the other ones.) Peter > > Yes, true.