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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:35:17 +0400
From: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:08:59PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:53:28PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > You ignored everything I said during the discussion of xattrs about how 
> > there is no need to have attributes when you can just have files and 
> > directories, and that xattrs reflected a complete ignorance of name 
> > space design principles.
> 
> Actually in most of the discussion you simply didn't participate.  While
> xattrs might not be the nicest interface they have the advantag of not
> breaking the SuS assumption of what directories vs files are, and they
> do not break the Linux O_DIRECTORY semantics that are defined and need
> to solve real-world races either.

Reiser4 may have a mount option for whoose who like or have to use traditional
O_DIRECTORY semantics.  There would be no /metas under non-directories, if user
wants that.

[ ... ]

-- 
Alex.