Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Chris Friesen]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Making files into directories caused only two applications out of the
> entire OS to notice the change, and that was because of a bug in what
> error code we returned that we are going to fix.  You think that was a
> disaster; I think it was a triumph.

>  Since we have such a performance lead, Namesys is about to change its
> focus from the storage layer to semantics, look at
> www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html for details.  Semantic enhancements are
> the important stuff, and finally Namesys is where we have all the
> storage layer prerequisites done right, and the real work can begin. 

Just curious about your comments on Jamie Lokier's suggestions for enabling 
files-as-directories semantics without breaking existing apps.

Chris
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