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    SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams
    Hans Reiser writes:
    >
    > If you don't do creat() on the directory, then you haven't configured an
    > overloaded name for a file and a directory. The rest is similar detail.
    >
    > > > Nothing I have said makes it mandatory that you choose to do an open
    > > > or a create on the directory, or that you use any filters.
    > >
    > > I'm glad to hear that, but I don't understand how that would
    > > work. I've heard talk about automagically tarring up directories,
    > > accessing "default" files when opening a directory, and so on. So how
    > > do you make this user (per process) configurable?
    > >
    > > Especially if data filters/default opening/automagic tarring is put
    > > into the kernel/FS, how do you make that user configurable?

    You're missing some important details. MAybe you know what you mean,
    but I certainly don't. I want to know what will happen when I do
    open(2) or stat(2) on a directory which is an albod.

    Regards,

    Richard....

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