From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Weinigel Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: 08 Sep 2004 00:47:24 +0200 Sender: wingel@zoo.weinigel.se Message-ID: References: <200409070206.i8726vrG006493@localhost.localdomain> <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> <413DFF33.9090607@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christer Weinigel , Hans Reiser , David Masover , Horst von Brand , Spam , Tonnerre , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, 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: David Lang In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org David Lang writes: > so far the best answer that I've seen is a slight varient of what Hans > is proposing for the 'file-as-a-directory' > > make the base file itself be a serialized version of all the streams > and if you want the 'main' stream open file/. (or some similar > varient) > in fact it may make sense to just open file/file to get at the 'main' > stream of the file (there may be cases where the concept of a single > main stream may not make sense) So what happens if I have a text file foo.txt and add an author attribute to it? When I read foo.txt the next time it's supposed to give me a serialized version with both the contents of foo.txt _and_ the author attribute? That would definitely confuse me. Or did I misunderstand something? /Christer -- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?" Freelance consultant specializing in device driver programming for Linux Christer Weinigel http://www.weinigel.se