From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269080AbUH0IWn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:22:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269062AbUH0IWm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:22:42 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:65251 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268924AbUH0ITq (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:19:46 -0400 X-Comment: AT&T Maillennium special handling code - c Message-ID: <412EEB6D.80702@namesys.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:06:05 -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=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >To me, a filesystem that allows this thing doesn't really _have_ the >concept of "directory vs file". It's just a "filesystem object", and it >can act as _both_ a directory and a file. > > > I agree.