From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262879AbVF3GbQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:31:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262878AbVF3GbQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:31:16 -0400 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:30178 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262875AbVF3GaB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:30:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:29:56 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: Hubert Chan Cc: Hans Reiser , Horst von Brand , Kyle Moffett , David Masover , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins Message-ID: <20050630062956.GP16867@khan.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Hubert Chan , Hans Reiser , Horst von Brand , Kyle Moffett , David Masover , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List References: <200506290509.j5T595I6010576@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <87hdfgvqvl.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <8783be6605062914341bcff7cb@mail.gmail.com> <42C3615A.9020600@namesys.com> <871x6kv4zd.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871x6kv4zd.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Editor: Vi Improved X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pub_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:33:10AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:04:58 -0700, Hans Reiser said: > > > Ross Biro wrote: > >> How is directories as files logically any different than putting all > >> data into .data files and making all files directories (yes you would > >> need some sort of special handling for files that were really called > >> .data). > > > Add to this that you make .data the default if the file within the > > directory is not specified, > > It's sort of like the way web servers handle index.html, for those who > think it's a stupid idea. (Of course, some people may still think it's > a stupid idea... ;-) ) And guess what? That's handled on the web server level (userland), not by the file system. So different web servers can handle it differently (think index.html.sv, index.html.zh, index.php, etc). Amazing isn't it? [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/