Christer Weinigel <wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se> said:
> jas88@cam.ac.uk wrote:
> > > This introduces one new thing which is really incompatible with
> > > POSIX filesystems, a file that can also act as a directory.
> > That's absolutely horrible.
> > > What is the basic reason why this directory can't live in a special
> > > directory called ".fork"? So instead of doing "cd file-with-forks"
> > > one does "cd .fork/file-with-forks"?
> > That's also horrible.
> It might be horrible, but how else are you going to solve it? As
> Linus has said, NTFS is not POSIX compatible anyway, but it has to be
> supported somehow.
I read it as "If it can be supported in a sane way, we should do it". This
is insane, as are all the other schemes I've seen discussed here. And
"supported somehow" leaves a lot of non-kernel options open: Special tools,
a compatibility library, ...
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