Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:24:50 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: file as a directory 
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>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...)

So let's keep it to reiser4 as to not wildly break programs running on other
filesystems used in "stable kernels". I'm saying that everybody who runs a R4
FS knows that apps might break, and thus is responsible for making them ready
for reiser4. (Or ask the prog's maintainer.)


Jan Engelhardt
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