From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikita Danilov Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:21:27 +0400 Message-ID: <16686.25191.635556.817958@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826193617.GA21248@arlut.utexas.edu> <20040826201639.GA5733@mail.shareable.org> <1093551956.13881.34.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <16686.23053.559951.815883@thebsh.namesys.com> <1093556917.13881.78.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Lokier , Jonathan Abbey , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Christophe Saout In-Reply-To: <1093556917.13881.78.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Christophe Saout writes: > Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 01:45 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov: > > > > At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them. > > > > They do. > > > > > ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas. > > > > That's because lookup for "bar" performs symlink resolution. > > So I can't access them and it is pointless. ;-) > > BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think > this makes sense. :) Why? foo/metas is a file system object just like foo. It has owner, permission bits, so access to its meta-data should be provided, and uniform way to provide access to the file system object meta-data is to have these little magic files inside metas directory, which is a file system object just like metas. It has owner^@^@^@^@*** - Lisp stack overflow. RESET Nikita. >