Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-28T10:10:05Z

Just have a special name instead of a special boundary, or, better, have
a filename/pseudos/backup method that outputs everything needed to
backup the object "filename".

Hans

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:
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>>Thing is, there is no way to distinguish between what are
>>virtual files and what are actual streams hidden inside a
>>file. You don't know what should and shouldn't be backed
>>up...
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>I think that lack of distinguishing poiwer is more serious for
>directories. The more I think I think about it, the more I wonder whether
>Solaris did things right - having a special operation to "cross the
>boundary".
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>I suspect Solaris did it that way because it's a hell of a lot easier to
>do it like that, but regardless, it would solve the issue of real
>directories having both real children _and_ the "extra streams".
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> Linus
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