Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | | From | Christer Weinigel <> | | Date | 08 Sep 2004 00:47:24 +0200 |
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David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> writes:
> so far the best answer that I've seen is a slight varient of what Hans > is proposing for the 'file-as-a-directory' > > make the base file itself be a serialized version of all the streams > and if you want the 'main' stream open file/. (or some similar > varient)
> in fact it may make sense to just open file/file to get at the 'main' > stream of the file (there may be cases where the concept of a single > main stream may not make sense)
So what happens if I have a text file foo.txt and add an author attribute to it? When I read foo.txt the next time it's supposed to give me a serialized version with both the contents of foo.txt _and_ the author attribute?
That would definitely confuse me.
Or did I misunderstand something?
/Christer
-- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
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