Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:21:27 +0400 | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Christophe Saout writes: > Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 01:45 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov: > > > > At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them. > > > > They do. > > > > > ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas. > > > > That's because lookup for "bar" performs symlink resolution. > > So I can't access them and it is pointless. ;-) > > BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think > this makes sense. :)
Why? foo/metas is a file system object just like foo. It has owner, permission bits, so access to its meta-data should be provided, and uniform way to provide access to the file system object meta-data is to have these little magic files inside metas directory, which is a file system object just like metas. It has owner^@^@^@^@*** - Lisp stack overflow. RESET
Nikita.
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