Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Linus Torvalds
2004-08-26T17:59:57Z

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