From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264973AbUH1KKF (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:10:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263100AbUH1KEF (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:04:05 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:15599 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266391AbUH1J64 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:58:56 -0400 X-Comment: AT&T Maillennium special handling code - c Message-ID: <4130562B.5020709@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:53:47 -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 , Spam , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Al Viro 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 Just have a special name instead of a special boundary, or, better, have a filename/pseudos/backup method that outputs everything needed to backup the object "filename". Hans Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >>Thing is, there is no way to distinguish between what are >>virtual files and what are actual streams hidden inside a >>file. You don't know what should and shouldn't be backed >>up... >> >> > >I think that lack of distinguishing poiwer is more serious for >directories. The more I think I think about it, the more I wonder whether >Solaris did things right - having a special operation to "cross the >boundary". > >I suspect Solaris did it that way because it's a hell of a lot easier to >do it like that, but regardless, it would solve the issue of real >directories having both real children _and_ the "extra streams". > > Linus > > > >