Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:24:11 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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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.
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