From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:43:59 -0700
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Cc: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>,  linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:35:17AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
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>>Reiser4 may have a mount option for whoose who like or have to use traditional
>>O_DIRECTORY semantics.  There would be no /metas under non-directories, if user
>>wants that.
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>Again, O_DIRECTORY was added to solve a real-world race, not just for
>the sake of it. 
>
Can you supply more details and we will try to reply concretely?  Thanks.

> If you really want to add that option I'll research the
>CAN number for you so you can named it after that - or just call it -o
>insecure directly.
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