Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

David Masover
2004-08-26T19:02:46Z

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
[...]
| tar cvf file.tar file file/

I don't like it. Imagine this:
$ cat file/perm
040700 drwx------
$ cat file/perm/user/writable
1
$ cat file/perm/uid
0

Do that tar, and you lose the uid. This is an example, and has plenty
of flaws. The point is that often there may be files/directories within
files/directories.

In order to make this work, you either have to patch tar or split every
file/directory into a file/directory pair, recursively, using some sort
of mangling. "file" becomes file.f and file.d. Then tar works.

To be honest, I like my "serializer" better. It just feels faster and
cleaner.

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