Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans Reiser <> | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:19:48 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | Re: albods are not a clean set of orthogonal primitives (was Re: File systems are semantically impoverished compared to database and keyword systems: it is time to change!) |
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What Linus says here is one (core) component of what we want to do.
This discussion has reached the point where I want to write some code now....
The Mad Killer
Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I really think the thing should be something like just > > > > lookup("default"); > > > > Remember: it would be implemented as if it was an implied symlink, so you > > can move them around and do whatever to them, it's just that there would > > bea shorthand for opening a special name under the directory. > > > > And it is ONLY a shorthand. Nothing more. > > *That* is 100% OK with me. Somehow I suspect that it's not the thing asked > by, ahem, innovators on a killing spree... BTW, we don't need a special fs > for that - it can be done right now on ext2. I don't see the point of > exercise, but it's not too terrible bloat. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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