Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-27T03:03:30Z

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For example, you _could_ probably (but hey, maybe "tar" tries to strip
> slashes off the end of filenames, so this might not work due to silly
> reasons like that) back up a compound file with
>
> tar cvf file.tar file file/

So you'd have both a file and a directory that just happen
to have the same name ? How would this work in the dcache?

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