From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268533AbUHaOKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268580AbUHaOKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:10:43 -0400 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:33415 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268533AbUHaOKW (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:10:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:09:52 -0400 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why In-reply-to: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Message-id: <413486B0.4050101@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: > > Why Openat Sucks: > > because you can't go cat filenameA/metas/permissions > > filenameB/permissions > > If cat doesn't work, then we are suffering exactly the problem with > namespace fragmentation that this whole scheme was invented to avoid. > Sure you can. All you need to do is fix your shell. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNIavdQs4kOxk3/MRAmvAAJ9sZfEgIOfINZsT23pa+Y3nQ4lfMACgmN3q sdgPzBUg9i/c+roWDrXq5BI= =poSJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----