Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:59:11 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why |
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Hi!
> >What about choosing just "..." instead of "metas"? "metas" is string > >that needs translation etc, while "..." is nicely neutral. > > > >cat /sound_of_silence.mp3/.../author > > > >does not look bad, either...
> "..." is pretty good, but I think it has been used by others, but I > really forget who. I could live with "...", but I think "metas" and > "..metas" will collide less often. Apparently Meta is a finnish name or > something, so Linus does not like it. The exact string is really not > very important to me. I agree that "..." is elegant.
Well, "..." is mostly used by script kiddies -- they usually have their rootkit collection there :-).
It would be nice to decide on one escape into "meta" namespace, uservfs and similar projects probably should be converted to use same escape.
[Uservfs currently uses things like cat /tmp/foo.tgz#utar/bar.gz#ugz ... essentially using # as another separator. It should probably be converted to use same meta escape].
Pavel
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