From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267505AbUH0UOj (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:14:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267576AbUH0UNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:32 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:49871 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267514AbUH0UGr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:06:47 -0400 Message-Id: <200408261817.i7QIH35O002702@localhost.localdomain> To: Helge Hafting cc: Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: Message from Helge Hafting of "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:31:54 +0200." <412D9FFA.6030307@hist.no> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:17:03 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Helge Hafting said: > Matt Mackall wrote: [...] > >Find some silly person with an iBook and open a shell on OS X. Use cp > >to copy a file with a resource fork. Oh look, the Finder has no idea > >what the new file is, even though it looks exactly identical in the > >shell. Isn't that _wonderful_? > It is what I'd expect. Great. That means that all the tools of the trade stop working. Sounds like show-killer feature to me. > Now, use cp -R to copy the file > _with its directory_, Either it is a file or a directory. Make up your mind. If you have no clear distinction, you'll only get messed up. Badly. > and see if that fares better. If not - bad > implementation of fs and/or cp. The way I see file-as -directory > is that _file_ operations (like the reads issued by cat) only > work on the file part. You want the directory part? Use > directory operations such as those "cp -R" use. Excuse me, I must grab my sickness bag here. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513