From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:52:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20040825215217.GK5414@waste.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:22:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > For one thing _I_ didn't decide about xattrs anyway. And I still > > haven't seen a design from you on -fsdevel how you try to solve the > > problems with files as directories. > > Hey, files-as-directories are one of my pet things, so I have to side with > Hans on this one. I think it just makes sense. A hell of a lot more sense > than xattrs, anyway, since it allows scripts etc standard tools to touch > the attributes. > > It's the UNIX way. I thought the UNIX way is "everything's a file", not "everything's a directory". > Will it potentially break something? Sure. Do we care? Me, I'll take that > kind of extension _any_ day over xattrs, that are fundamentally flawed in > my opinion and totally useless. There's always the option that they're both broken. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.