Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Jamie Lokier
2004-08-26T17:27:03Z

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