Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Jamie Lokier]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In other words, the "directory" part is just a _view_ into the file. A
> view that potentially exposes a lot _more_ of the file, but we're still
> talking about the same file.
> 
> In contrast, a S_IFDIR-like _directory_ is something else entirely. When 
> you view the things in that, you aren't looking at data "inside" the 
> directory. You're looking at somethign totally independent.

One of the constraints is that you can create any name in an
S_IFDIR-like directory, but you probably can't create any name "in" an
S_IFREG-like file, because the names have meaning -- except in
designated subtrees of the view intended for holding arbitrary names.

-- Jamie
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