Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268735AbUIGWrq (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:47:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268742AbUIGWrp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:47:45 -0400 Received: from as8-6-1.ens.s.bonet.se ([217.215.92.25]:8156 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268735AbUIGWr1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:47:27 -0400 To: David Lang Cc: Christer Weinigel , Hans Reiser , David Masover , Horst von Brand , Spam , 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: <200409070206.i8726vrG006493@localhost.localdomain> <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> <413DFF33.9090607@namesys.com> From: Christer Weinigel Organization: Weinigel Ingenjorsbyra AB Date: 08 Sep 2004 00:47:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1255 Lines: 29 David Lang writes: > so far the best answer that I've seen is a slight varient of what Hans > is proposing for the 'file-as-a-directory' > > make the base file itself be a serialized version of all the streams > and if you want the 'main' stream open file/. (or some similar > varient) > in fact it may make sense to just open file/file to get at the 'main' > stream of the file (there may be cases where the concept of a single > main stream may not make sense) So what happens if I have a text file foo.txt and add an author attribute to it? When I read foo.txt the next time it's supposed to give me a serialized version with both the contents of foo.txt _and_ the author attribute? That would definitely confuse me. Or did I misunderstand something? /Christer -- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?" Freelance consultant specializing in device driver programming for Linux Christer Weinigel http://www.weinigel.se - 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/