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 16:35:37 -0700 Message-ID: <412E73C9.6020104@namesys.com> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826193617.GA21248@arlut.utexas.edu> <20040826201639.GA5733@mail.shareable.org> <1093551956.13881.34.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <16686.23053.559951.815883@thebsh.namesys.com> <1093556917.13881.78.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <16686.25191.635556.817958@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christophe Saout , Jamie Lokier , Jonathan Abbey , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , 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: Nikita Danilov In-Reply-To: <16686.25191.635556.817958@gargle.gargle.HOWL> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Nikita Danilov wrote: >Christophe Saout writes: > > Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 01:45 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov: > > > > > > At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them. > > > > > > They do. > > > > > > > ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas. > > > > > > That's because lookup for "bar" performs symlink resolution. > > > > So I can't access them and it is pointless. ;-) > > > > BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think > > this makes sense. :) > >Why? foo/metas is a file system object just like foo. It has owner, >permission bits, so access to its meta-data should be provided, and >uniform way to provide access to the file system object meta-data is to >have these little magic files inside metas directory, which is a file >system object just like metas. It has owner^@^@^@^@*** - Lisp stack >overflow. RESET > >Nikita. > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > I think Christophe is a bit right here. While in general having meta-meta objects makes sense, in this particular instance, I don't see the functional need for it. Can you supply an example of where it would be useful?