Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  
>
> > > And you might not be able to change the 
> > > permissions or date on the named stream either, since it may or may not 
> > > have a separate date/permission thing from the container.
> > >      
> > You should be able to change the permission and data,
^data^date

> > but when you 
> > change it, you change it for the whole container.
> >    
>
> Why? I'd much rather disallow it, than allow it and then have "nonlocal" 
> effects.
>  
Sometimes you want the nonlocal effects and sometimes you don't, and by 
decomposing streams into smaller primitives we can let users choose as 
they want.



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