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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:40:10PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:

    > > So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ?
    >
    > /bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could do
    > it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think:

    Yes, but what about locking? If we have compound files with
    individually accessible components a lock on the compound files
    could lock its components at the same time.

    But what with /usr/.compound? Is it read-only? What if you truncate it?
    Does it atomically delete the whole /usr directory tree? What about reading?
    It has to go through all these independent files, what if they change while
    you are reading the compound file? Does it lock everything? Point-in-time
    snapshot? If reiser4 can't do this. ;-)

    I don't say that it's impossible to do but I think it's a lot harder than
    doing it the other way round.
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