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

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:09:52AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>> Maybe file/./attribute then. /. on a file is currently meaningless.
>> That does not avoid the unpleasant fact that has been brought up by
>> others (only to be ignored), that the directory syntax does not
>> allow metadata on directories.

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:03:42AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> *Not* that I am endorsing the idea of being able to access metadata
> via a standard pathname --- I continue to believe that named streams
> are a bad idea that will be an attractive nuisance to application
> developers, and if we must do them, then Solaris's openat(2) API is
> the best way to proceed --- HOWEVER, if people are insistent on being
> able to do this via standard pathnames, and not introducing a new
> system call, I would suggest /|/ as the separator as the third least
> worst option.  Why?

I believe this debate is counterproductive while there are far more
basic and serious issues with reiser4, such as architecture-neutrality
of the interpretation of the on-disk format, still pending.


-- wli
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