Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268036AbUIJXzq (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:55:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268039AbUIJXzq (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:55:46 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:60689 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268036AbUIJXzK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:55:10 -0400 Message-ID: <41424015.1020804@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:00:21 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Hans Reiser , Peter Foldiak , 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 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <200409101815.i8AIFc5i005300@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200409101815.i8AIFc5i005300@localhost.localdomain> 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: 1091 Lines: 35 Horst von Brand wrote: > Hans Reiser said: > >>Timothy Miller wrote: > > > [...] > > >>>You know, if tools all need to be rewritten anyway to deal with the >>>file metadata "directory", then why not change the symbol that >>>delimits the metadata key? > > >>because it is useful that it is only a style convention. Changing the >>symbol makes it mandatory to distinguish metafiles from files. > > > If they are really different than directories, it should be clear what is > what, IMVHO. If they aren't different, they have no place here. Trying to > break hoary Unix tradition (files and directories are separate) while > pretending nothing has changed (see, a file can be handled just like a > directory) just doesn't cut it. I think that sums up what I was trying to say better than what I said did. :) - 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/