Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261477AbUKVOu4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:50:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261468AbUKVOlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:41:18 -0500 Received: from faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.33.16]:27272 "EHLO faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261477AbUKVOhi (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:37:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:37:20 +0100 From: Martin Waitz To: Amit Gud Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: file as a directory Message-ID: <20041122143720.GL19738@admingilde.org> Mail-Followup-To: Amit Gud , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 42 --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hoi :) On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:24:36PM +0530, Amit Gud wrote: > A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory" > mechanism more logical in VFS itself, rather than having each fs (like > reiser4) to implement it seperately? wouldn't it be better if such things would be implemented in a library? use gnome-vfs, or try to get a vfs layer into libc. That way you can even support different and old kernels and all filesystems. The kernel already provides all methods that are neccessary to do that. So there is no need to implement it in the kernel. --=20 Martin Waitz --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBofmfj/Eaxd/oD7IRAi3aAJ0Vs5ghbKohVajl6rPy1vuv1EbjsQCfZHhC O5NQdXNXEf1Dxz9g7Zbo05c= =FdzT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EdRE1UL8d3mMOE6m-- - 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/