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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:13:32 +0100
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On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 12:01, Claus F=C3=A4rber wrote:
> A simple convention that meta data files start with, say ".$", would be =20
> enough.

POSIX/SuS don't permit this. The only "free" namespace is that starting
"//" (and not as some desktops seem to think foo://). Remember always
send GUI desktop users files called http://read.me  .. its fun 8)

The // doesn't really help because you don't want extensions at the path
top.=20

Another interesting question btw with substreams of a file is what the
semantics of fchown, fstat, fchmod, fchdir etc are, or of mounting a
file over a substream.

Alan