From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Miller Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: <41424015.1020804@techsource.com> References: <200409101815.i8AIFc5i005300@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hans Reiser , Peter Foldiak , Jamie Lokier , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Horst von Brand In-Reply-To: <200409101815.i8AIFc5i005300@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Horst von Brand wrote: > Hans Reiser said: > >>Timothy Miller wrote: > > > [...] > > >>>You know, if tools all need to be rewritten anyway to deal with the >>>file metadata "directory", then why not change the symbol that >>>delimits the metadata key? > > >>because it is useful that it is only a style convention. Changing the >>symbol makes it mandatory to distinguish metafiles from files. > > > If they are really different than directories, it should be clear what is > what, IMVHO. If they aren't different, they have no place here. Trying to > break hoary Unix tradition (files and directories are separate) while > pretending nothing has changed (see, a file can be handled just like a > directory) just doesn't cut it. I think that sums up what I was trying to say better than what I said did. :)