From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269786AbUHZW7l (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:59:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269783AbUHZW7O (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:59:14 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:17025 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269761AbUHZW6N (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:58:13 -0400 X-Comment: AT&T Maillennium special handling code - c Message-ID: <412E69D2.50503@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:53:06 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, 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 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >For example, it's likely that most filesystems would _not_ allow linking >of a named stream anywhere else. > Why? It is just a file that inherits its stat data and is referenced by a concatenation method of its parent directory. The link will also inherit its stat data from the original parent directory. > And you might not be able to change the >permissions or date on the named stream either, since it may or may not >have a separate date/permission thing from the container. > > You should be able to change the permission and data, but when you change it, you change it for the whole container.