Messages in this thread | | | From | Dirk Steinberg <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:11:21 +0100 |
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On Monday 22 November 2004 19:52, Hans Reiser wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > >(Hint - "file as directory" broke a number of programs that didn't > >expect that a file *could* be a directory, when run on a reiser4 > >filesystem...) > > It broke extraordinarily few.
I know from personal experience that it *does* break Acrobat Reader, which, unfortunately, is binary-only and also a programm that I use quite often. For me this means I cannot use reiser4 (as root fs anyway) without metas disabled.
How about making metas a mount option? Right now disabling metas requires patching the source.
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