Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Chris Friesen
2004-08-25T20:32:49Z

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Making files into directories caused only two applications out of the
> entire OS to notice the change, and that was because of a bug in what
> error code we returned that we are going to fix. You think that was a
> disaster; I think it was a triumph.

> Since we have such a performance lead, Namesys is about to change its
> focus from the storage layer to semantics, look at
> www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html for details. Semantic enhancements are
> the important stuff, and finally Namesys is where we have all the
> storage layer prerequisites done right, and the real work can begin.

Just curious about your comments on Jamie Lokier's suggestions for enabling
files-as-directories semantics without breaking existing apps.

Chris