Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Timothy Miller
2004-09-10T23:55:46Z

Horst von Brand wrote:
> Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
>
>>Timothy Miller wrote:
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> [...]
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>>>You know, if tools all need to be rewritten anyway to deal with the
>>>file metadata "directory", then why not change the symbol that
>>>delimits the metadata key?
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>>because it is useful that it is only a style convention. Changing the
>>symbol makes it mandatory to distinguish metafiles from files.
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> If they are really different than directories, it should be clear what is
> what, IMVHO. If they aren't different, they have no place here. Trying to
> break hoary Unix tradition (files and directories are separate) while
> pretending nothing has changed (see, a file can be handled just like a
> directory) just doesn't cut it.

I think that sums up what I was trying to say better than what I said
did. :)