Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:16:32 -0400 | From | Jeff Mahoney <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said: > >> Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a >> "directory". > > And said mountpoint gets past the '/' interpretation in the VFS, how, exactly? > > fs/namei.c, do_path_lookup() does magic on a '/' on about the 3rd line. > So you're going to get handed 'a'.
That's where he started talking about how BSD gets namei() right by allowing each file system to deal with it how it chooses.
Personally, I think it's insane. On occasion, I've started to port ReiserFS to BSD-like systems, and I get so fed up with how you have to reinvent the wheel for everything. There's something to be said for replaceable-anything semantics, but personally I like the Linux model and having an agreed-upon framework to work with.
I also think it's insane to come up with a reisermetafs to export procfs information when a simple s#/#!# _on a single directory name_ will do the job.
- -Jeff
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