From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269151AbUHZRdk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:33:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269147AbUHZRdd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:33:33 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:44998 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269261AbUHZR2w (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:28:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:27:03 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds 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 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826172703.GR5733@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Surely it depends on the directory? The stream from a "classic directory", i.e. something made with mkdir(), mode drwxr-xr-x filled with files, might well be a reproducible representation of its contents. -- Jamie