Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:40:29 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> > >If your backup program dives into the file despite stat() >saying it's a file and you restore your backup, how are the >"file is a file" semantics preserved ? > >Obviously this is something that needs to be sorted out at >the VFS layer. > It needs to be sorted out, whether it is sorted out at the VFS layer is unimportant.
> A filesystem specific backup and restore >program isn't desirable, if only because then there'd be >no way for Hans's users to switch to reiser5 in 2010 ;) > > > It might be that we need a filenameA/metas/backup method for all of our file plugins, which if cat'd gives a set of instructions which if executed are adequate for restoring filenameA.
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