From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:17:03 -0400 Message-ID: <200408261817.i7QIH35O002702@localhost.localdomain> References: Cc: Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.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: Helge Hafting In-Reply-To: Message from Helge Hafting of "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:31:54 +0200." <412D9FFA.6030307@hist.no> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Helge Hafting said: > Matt Mackall wrote: [...] > >Find some silly person with an iBook and open a shell on OS X. Use cp > >to copy a file with a resource fork. Oh look, the Finder has no idea > >what the new file is, even though it looks exactly identical in the > >shell. Isn't that _wonderful_? > It is what I'd expect. Great. That means that all the tools of the trade stop working. Sounds like show-killer feature to me. > Now, use cp -R to copy the file > _with its directory_, Either it is a file or a directory. Make up your mind. If you have no clear distinction, you'll only get messed up. Badly. > and see if that fares better. If not - bad > implementation of fs and/or cp. The way I see file-as -directory > is that _file_ operations (like the reads issued by cat) only > work on the file part. You want the directory part? Use > directory operations such as those "cp -R" use. Excuse me, I must grab my sickness bag here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513