Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Andries Brouwer
2004-08-28T19:41:39Z

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:16:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

If I see it correctly, you want to group a file and some
ancillary files together.

The Unix way would be to make a directory and put them all there:
xterm/xterm
xterm/xterm.icon

But you are unsatisfied and want
xterm
xterm/xterm.icon

As long as we agree that the latter really means the former,
there are no problems in finding out what should happen.

The conclusion is, that a directory carries an additional bit
that says "if I am opened as a regular file then use the file
of the same name inside".

Now there is no attribute space, just a shorthand.

Andries