Re: Question about Reiser4

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 23 2007 17:21, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Our you could think outside the circle:
>> Store all your "small files" as symlinks, then use "symlink" to create
>> them and "readlink" to read them. (You would probably end up use
>> symlinkat and readlinkat).
>> Only one system call instead of three.
>> I guess you don't get meaningful permission bits then... I wonder if
>> that really matters.
>
> For some applications, oh yes it does.

Put them in a protected directory.


Jan
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