Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:52:17 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:22:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > For one thing _I_ didn't decide about xattrs anyway. And I still > > haven't seen a design from you on -fsdevel how you try to solve the > > problems with files as directories. > > Hey, files-as-directories are one of my pet things, so I have to side with > Hans on this one. I think it just makes sense. A hell of a lot more sense > than xattrs, anyway, since it allows scripts etc standard tools to touch > the attributes. > > It's the UNIX way.
I thought the UNIX way is "everything's a file", not "everything's a directory".
> Will it potentially break something? Sure. Do we care? Me, I'll take that > kind of extension _any_ day over xattrs, that are fundamentally flawed in > my opinion and totally useless.
There's always the option that they're both broken.
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