From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269256AbUHZRi1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:38:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269249AbUHZRe2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:34:28 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5080 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269256AbUHZRZD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:25:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rik van Riel cc: Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.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-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Diego Calleja wrote: > > > All this looks like reinventing the file/directory concept wheel. > > Instead of adding support for streams and "use files as directories", > > why not orientate it to "use directories as files? Streams could very > > well be provided by directories containing files, > > So all I need to do is "cat /bin | gzip -9 > /path/to/backup.tar.gz" ? No no. The stream you get from a directory is totally _independent_ of the contents of the directory. Anything else would be pointless. Linus