From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:53:06 -0700 Message-ID: <412E69D2.50503@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >For example, it's likely that most filesystems would _not_ allow linking >of a named stream anywhere else. > Why? It is just a file that inherits its stat data and is referenced by a concatenation method of its parent directory. The link will also inherit its stat data from the original parent directory. > And you might not be able to change the >permissions or date on the named stream either, since it may or may not >have a separate date/permission thing from the container. > > You should be able to change the permission and data, but when you change it, you change it for the whole container.