Re: reiser4 plugins

David Weinehall
2005-06-30T06:31:16Z

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:33:10AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:04:58 -0700, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
>
> > Ross Biro wrote:
> >> How is directories as files logically any different than putting all
> >> data into .data files and making all files directories (yes you would
> >> need some sort of special handling for files that were really called
> >> .data).
>
> > Add to this that you make .data the default if the file within the
> > directory is not specified,
>
> It's sort of like the way web servers handle index.html, for those who
> think it's a stupid idea. (Of course, some people may still think it's
> a stupid idea... ;-) )

And guess what? That's handled on the web server level (userland),
not by the file system. So different web servers can handle it
differently (think index.html.sv, index.html.zh, index.php, etc).

Amazing isn't it?

[snip]

Regards: David Weinehall
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