Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:26:45 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams |
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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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