Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Horst von Brand]

Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> >Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >>Horst von Brand wrote:
> >>>Spam <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >>>>Christer Weinigel <christer@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> >>>>>2. How do we want to expose named streams?
> >>>>>  One suggestion is file-as-directory in some form.

> >>>Which is broken, as it forbids hard links to files.

> >>No, it forbids hard links to the directory aspect of the file-directory 
> >>duality.

> >How do you distinguish a "hard link to the directory personality" from
> >"hard link to the file personality"?

> Put in (undoubtedly overly) simple terms, if you can do it to a file you 
> can do it to the file personality, but if you currently can only do it 
> to a directory and get an error from attempting it to a file then in the 
> new scheme doing it to the hard link only gives the same error.

Let me sort this out: If it can't be done POSIXly to a directory, it can't
be done in Reiser4 to a file (which really is a directory too). So there
can be exactly _one_ hard link to a file. Way borken.

> Or, we can ask Alexander to help us use his deadlock detection algorithm 
> and try to do things right....

Good luck with that one. I'd suspect if it can be made to work, it will
have _huge_ overhead, so much that it is useless. I'd love to be proven
wrong, but I won't hold my breath.
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