Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268589AbUIGTQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:16:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268581AbUIGTQH (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:16:07 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:43984 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268503AbUIGTOk (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:14:40 -0400 Message-ID: <413E08A4.9020005@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:14:44 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Spam , Christer Weinigel , David Masover , Tonnerre , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <200409071815.i87IFseF004907@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200409071815.i87IFseF004907@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1326 Lines: 58 Horst von Brand wrote: >Hans Reiser said: > > >>Horst von Brand wrote: >> >> >>>Spam said: >>> >>> >>>>Christer Weinigel said: >>>> >>>> > >[...] > > > >>>>>2. How do we want to expose named streams? >>>>> >>>>> > > > >>>>> One suggestion is file-as-directory in some form. >>>>> >>>>> > > > >>>Which is broken, as it forbids hard links to files. >>> >>> > > > >>No, it forbids hard links to the directory aspect of the file-directory >>duality. >> >> > >How do you distinguish a "hard link to the directory personality" from >"hard link to the file personality"? > Put in (undoubtedly overly) simple terms, if you can do it to a file you can do it to the file personality, but if you currently can only do it to a directory and get an error from attempting it to a file then in the new scheme doing it to the hard link only gives the same error. Or, we can ask Alexander to help us use his deadlock detection algorithm and try to do things right.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/