Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Timothy Miller]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> > > You know, if tools all need to be rewritten anyway to deal with the 
> > > file metadata "directory", then why not change the symbol that 
> > > delimits the metadata key?
>
>
> > because it is useful that it is only a style convention.  Changing the 
> > symbol makes it mandatory to distinguish metafiles from files.
>
>
> If they are really different than directories, it should be clear what is
> what, IMVHO. If they aren't different, they have no place here. Trying to
> break hoary Unix tradition (files and directories are separate) while
> pretending nothing has changed (see, a file can be handled just like a
> directory) just doesn't cut it.


I think that sums up what I was trying to say better than what I said 
did.  :)

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