Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 12:44:34 EST


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" ?

This is getting surreal.

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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