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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > In other words, the "directory" part is just a _view_ into the file. A
    > view that potentially exposes a lot _more_ of the file, but we're still
    > talking about the same file.
    >
    > In contrast, a S_IFDIR-like _directory_ is something else entirely. When
    > you view the things in that, you aren't looking at data "inside" the
    > directory. You're looking at somethign totally independent.

    One of the constraints is that you can create any name in an
    S_IFDIR-like directory, but you probably can't create any name "in" an
    S_IFREG-like file, because the names have meaning -- except in
    designated subtrees of the view intended for holding arbitrary names.

    -- Jamie
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