From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:53:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4130562B.5020709@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rik van Riel , Spam , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Al Viro 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 Just have a special name instead of a special boundary, or, better, have a filename/pseudos/backup method that outputs everything needed to backup the object "filename". Hans Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >>Thing is, there is no way to distinguish between what are >>virtual files and what are actual streams hidden inside a >>file. You don't know what should and shouldn't be backed >>up... >> >> > >I think that lack of distinguishing poiwer is more serious for >directories. The more I think I think about it, the more I wonder whether >Solaris did things right - having a special operation to "cross the >boundary". > >I suspect Solaris did it that way because it's a hell of a lot easier to >do it like that, but regardless, it would solve the issue of real >directories having both real children _and_ the "extra streams". > > Linus > > > >