From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20040826172703.GR5733@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, 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: Jamie Lokier In-Reply-To: <20040826172703.GR5733@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > No no. The stream you get from a directory is totally _independent_ of the > > contents of the directory. Anything else would be pointless. > > Surely it depends on the directory? Well, you _could_ make it do a "tar", but what's the point? That really doesn't add any value as far as user space is concerned. Think of it this way: if the directory and the "default stream" associated with it aren't independent, then user space already has the information, and the stream is pointless. In fact, the stream is _worse_ than pointless, because it hides the fact that there is no independent information. See my point? Linus