Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hubert Chan
2004-08-29T21:05:17Z

>>>>> "CaT" == CaT <cat@zip.com.au> writes:

CaT> My apologies if this question has been raised (and answered)
CaT> elsewhere. I tried to keep up with the flamefest/discussion but it
CaT> wasn't always possible.

CaT> How would you do it for directories without making certain names
CaT> illegal? ie taking the above you'd do:

CaT> cat dirA/metas/permissions > dirB/metas/permissions

Yes. Directories are not allowed to contain objects with a filename
"metas". The naming of "metas" has been discussed quite a bit on the
Reiserfs list, and I don't think there was much consensus that came out
of it. Currently for Reiser4, AFAIK, the "metas" name is a compile-time
option that you can change by changing a #define, if you're worried
about name clashes.

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