From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: The Necessity of File Types (was silent semantic changes with reiser4) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:42:03 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4133C95B.8080307@slaphack.com> References: <3632837631-BeMail@cr593174-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:10388 "EHLO slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265910AbUHaAmL (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:42:11 -0400 To: "Alexander G. M. Smith" In-Reply-To: <3632837631-BeMail@cr593174-a> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: [...] | By the way, I disagree on Hans with using a directory for the meta data, I'd prefer to just have "..meta." as the name prefix of the metadata things. Otherwise there's an extra directory level in there, making ..meta/ different from other directories (making browsing it a bit awkward since it doesn't have metadata of its own - like window coordinates for displaying the directory). You'd rather do "cat ..meta.pseudo" than "ls ..metas/"? And we already have weird directories. /proc doesn't do things that /tmp does. I also doubt proc will ever store that kind of metadata. I don't like either "metas" or "..metas", but you'll have to look in the archives for why. I am NOT starting that again. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQTPJW3gHNmZLgCUhAQKuEw/+PjrDfSlZvuTUwiOSa/kU05qjTKkIp05F nBkrSIUKSUfoYN3gILucIGOjjJ5qBRW3wLIwWyO+raOAzHFTdylvR1rEWP9h/JUG Psz3X8RE8cubiuNwjyJawI87cPX8HW1xQxgkiiquZN2L5XbvHsFsbwAJV1tJLnrM 2lL6IBUXcxDIh7pdB0/z+4t945ElT3Rl09CLP/MfP4GNvt/UWjhbeHNWdeLq93C+ w0irn6VIsm+1+GKqEhpYLLMj9V4cbBY6m7XMuBzH+gEyu5exAMqGzPLGDiG/I6y/ rXI6IF94i2p4sLMv0LmtEvQsV37LFIKRBrWVScV5oiQ93LPVLG6pYmAi6RLsHN03 QazMmcRwjVvrTAf0KS21KXaE0qYbvgoQpteUEkPZLRkczSmiry2d3e6gBQlCV7xj 9Hzkm9HxR0BjxmRaMVLEWZ86t08OHkl0Ab186DiHUC5RlL2FPIvdyYthXo9wwtI/ XlA03Rvc3kl6DVRO8UM/+fa8v5MDn58ZMI2QgdPrU0V2Q9bGv/woByszXaDA+IVJ ZiHQ8IgShYlkA279DffOrZnDPnZMOWa7iRYetX5PYPoAyfkrmFKofT8va+dDL7pf HA5crUR5ws1EZZ8lUfrtXXnsBeEn9PS0lUHvJY7zZ4tJfZ65Fa+IiDpK5p+1tJZi ylCBNEidK/8= =CiZ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----