Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Claus Färber
2004-08-31T11:01:00Z

Stephen Wille Padnos <spadnos@sover.net> schrieb/wrote:
> How does the file manager / chooser decide whether you're trying to
> move into a directory, or the meta-data-directory for a directory?
> It's not just files that should have metadata - directories need* them
> too. Making it possible to see attributes as a directory under a file
> is great, but you'd still need an O_META flag for accessing directory
> metadata (since there are already files under a directory).

A simple convention that meta data files start with, say ".$", would be
enough.

Claus
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