Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:59:11 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why
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Hi!

> >What about choosing just "..." instead of "metas"? "metas" is string
> >that needs translation etc, while "..." is nicely neutral.
> >
> >cat /sound_of_silence.mp3/.../author
> >
> >does not look bad, either...

> "..." is pretty good, but I think it has been used by others, but I 
> really forget who.  I could live with "...", but I think "metas" and 
> "..metas" will collide less often.  Apparently Meta is a finnish name or 
> something, so Linus does not like it.  The exact string is really not 
> very important to me.  I agree that "..." is elegant.

Well, "..." is mostly used by script kiddies -- they usually have
their rootkit collection there :-).

It would be nice to decide on one escape into "meta" namespace,
uservfs and similar projects probably should be converted to use same
escape.

[Uservfs currently uses things like cat /tmp/foo.tgz#utar/bar.gz#ugz
... essentially using # as another separator. It should probably be
converted to use same meta escape].

								Pavel


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