Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268348AbUIJGdf (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:33:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268286AbUIJGdd (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:33:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.e7even.com ([83.151.192.5]:25820 "HELO smtp.e7even.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268316AbUIJGdb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:33:31 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Peter Foldiak To: Hans Reiser Cc: Timothy Miller , Jamie Lokier , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <41413A2B.9020405@namesys.com> References: <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> <412DA40B.5040806@namesys.com> <20040826140500.GA29965@fs.tum.de> <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <41410DE7.3090100@techsource.com> <41413A2B.9020405@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094797973.4838.4.camel@almond.st-and.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:32:54 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 22 On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 06:22, Hans Reiser wrote: > He asked me, why not just access a filename's size as filename/size? I now understand that you need a way to distinguish between something like shoe/size and shoe/.../size (or shoe/..size) The first one is the size of the shoe, the second is the automatically generated size of the file (object). You would get into trouble if you would not allow the user to use shoe/size for shoe size. Peter - 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/