From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:48:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20040826204841.GC5733@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, 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: Rik van Riel Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > For objects that do both, how does the user choose ? > > Do we really want to have a file paradigm that's different > from the other OSes out there ? What does MacOS X do? Someone said that documents are directories in it; it must know how to handle that. What does Windows do when you click on a .zip file and WinZIP is installed? It opens the .zip file and lets you explore inside. When you click on a .doc file, though, it opens a viewer or editor -- you don't get the option to look inside. > What happens when users want to transfer data from Linux > to another system ? This is why I favour storing all essential metadata (about the file's content) inside the file's contents, the primary stream. We have another problem: what happens when users want to transfer data from Windows (with secondary streams) and MacOS (with resource forks)? -- Jamie