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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:20:36 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Diego Calleja wrote:
> 
> > All this looks like reinventing the file/directory concept wheel.
> > Instead of adding support for streams and "use files as directories",
> > why not orientate it to "use directories as files? Streams could very
> > well be provided by directories containing files,
> 
> So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ?

No no. The stream you get from a directory is totally _independent_ of the 
contents of the directory. Anything else would be pointless.

		Linus