From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266836AbUIAPKY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:10:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266839AbUIAPKX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:10:23 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:57301 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266836AbUIAPKV (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:10:21 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claus_F=E4rber?=) Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: 31 Aug 2004 13:01:00 +0200 Message-ID: <9FuGrTY3cDD@3247.org> References: <412E4999.1050504@sover.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-62-245-241-148.mnet-online.de User-Agent: OpenXP/3.9.8-cvs (Win32; Delphi) Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Wille Padnos schrieb/wrote: > How does the file manager / chooser decide whether you're trying to > move into a directory, or the meta-data-directory for a directory? > It's not just files that should have metadata - directories need* them > too. Making it possible to see attributes as a directory under a file > is great, but you'd still need an O_META flag for accessing directory > metadata (since there are already files under a directory). A simple convention that meta data files start with, say ".$", would be enough. Claus -- http://www.faerber.muc.de