Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why

[Spam]

> Salut,

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Spam wrote:
>>   How  are  things  done on Windows platforms when there are files and
>>   directories  with the same name? In Unix that is imposible. How does
>>   it  work  for  environments  like  Cygwin  etc? What happen to tools
>>   that run in them?

> In  NTFS it's  illegal  IIRC.  At least  the  fs correction  utilities
> complain about a block being assigned to two files.

  I  meant  a  file  and a directory with the same name, not two files
  with the same name :) subtle but important difference.

  ie,  you can have a file named "foo" and a directory named "foo" and
  they won't collide.
  

> Same with HFS+.

> Sometimes  there seem to  be several  things with  the same  name. But
> that's because of hidden extensions (.lnk for example).

> I'm talking out of the book here, maybe the real-world implementations
> of Windows  are different. I can't  tell, I only used  Windows once to
> ssh into a screwed-up router.

> 				Tonnerre


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