Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-26T17:59:29Z

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> escribió:
>
> > So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ?
>
> /bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could
> do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think:

Arghhhh. I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people
are taking it seriously ;(

It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the
kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems.

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