From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:28:00 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <87brlwkhsv.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <407AB9AE.3060801@pobox.com> <874qrpkwyi.fsf@uhoreg.ca> <407AEC54.3060403@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "John" == John D Heintz writes: John> Hi Hubert, Hubert, John> I agree with you, but I don't think our suggestions are exclusive. John> An "ls" can return the contents of the directory as you suggested John> and a "cat" could return tab and newline separated content. I'm John> using the ReiserFS /etc/passwd example as a template. Sigh. Thanks for reminding me of that. I guess it's still too easy to get caught up in the old filesystem paradigms, even when you're talking about the cool new features of Reiser4. (Ha! Just imagine how much trouble the regular users are going to have, if us uber-hackers can't get it straight. ;-) ) -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.