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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:27:03 +0100
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ?
> 
> No no. The stream you get from a directory is totally _independent_ of the 
> contents of the directory. Anything else would be pointless.

Surely it depends on the directory?

The stream from a "classic directory", i.e. something made with
mkdir(), mode drwxr-xr-x filled with files, might well be a reproducible
representation of its contents.

-- Jamie