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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:23:33 -0400
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, akpm@osdl.org,
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Hans Reiser wrote:

> Making files into directories caused only two applications out of the
> entire OS to notice the change, and that was because of a bug in what
> error code we returned that we are going to fix.  You think that was a
> disaster; I think it was a triumph.

>  Since we have such a performance lead, Namesys is about to change its
> focus from the storage layer to semantics, look at
> www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html for details.  Semantic enhancements are
> the important stuff, and finally Namesys is where we have all the
> storage layer prerequisites done right, and the real work can begin. 

Just curious about your comments on Jamie Lokier's suggestions for enabling 
files-as-directories semantics without breaking existing apps.

Chris