Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-26T17:32:59Z

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Diego Calleja wrote:

> All this looks like reinventing the file/directory concept wheel.
> Instead of adding support for streams and "use files as directories",
> why not orientate it to "use directories as files? Streams could very
> well be provided by directories containing files,

So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ?

This is getting surreal.

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