Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
From: David Lang
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 18:02:49 EST
On Tue, 8 Sep 2004, Christer Weinigel wrote:
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
so far the best answer that I've seen is a slight varient of what Hans
is proposing for the 'file-as-a-directory'
make the base file itself be a serialized version of all the streams
and if you want the 'main' stream open file/. (or some similar
varient)
in fact it may make sense to just open file/file to get at the 'main'
stream of the file (there may be cases where the concept of a single
main stream may not make sense)
So what happens if I have a text file foo.txt and add an author
attribute to it? When I read foo.txt the next time it's supposed to
give me a serialized version with both the contents of foo.txt _and_
the author attribute?
That would definitely confuse me.
Or did I misunderstand something?
good point. under my scheme you would need to access foo.txt/foo.txt or
foo.txt/. instead of just foo.txt
I guess my way would work if there is a way to know that a file has been
extended (or if you just make it a habit of opening the file/file instead
of just file) but not for random additions of streams to otherwise normal
files.
Oh well, it seemed like a easy fix (and turned out to be to easy to be
practical)
David Lang
/Christer
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