From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Foldiak Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:32:54 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094797973.4838.4.camel@almond.st-and.ac.uk> References: <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> <412DA40B.5040806@namesys.com> <20040826140500.GA29965@fs.tum.de> <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <41410DE7.3090100@techsource.com> <41413A2B.9020405@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Timothy Miller , Jamie Lokier , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: Received: from smtp.e7even.com ([83.151.192.5]:24540 "HELO smtp.e7even.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268286AbUIJGda (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:33:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.e7even.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 03641-09 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:33:21 +0100 (BST) To: Hans Reiser In-Reply-To: <41413A2B.9020405@namesys.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 06:22, Hans Reiser wrote: > He asked me, why not just access a filename's size as filename/size? I now understand that you need a way to distinguish between something like shoe/size and shoe/.../size (or shoe/..size) The first one is the size of the shoe, the second is the automatically generated size of the file (object). You would get into trouble if you would not allow the user to use shoe/size for shoe size. Peter