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To: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: file as a directory 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:24:36 +0530."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:24:36 +0530, Amit Gud said:

>  A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory"
> mechanism more logical in VFS itself,

There was quite the flame-fest on the lkml a while back regarding
how the semantics of "file as a directory" should operate.  There's
a number of really nasty corner cases that you need to deal with.

Go back and re-read the whole flame-fest, understand all the points
raised, and let us know when you have a workable proposal.

(Hint - "file as directory" broke a number of programs that didn't
expect that a file *could* be a directory, when run on a reiser4
filesystem...)

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