Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> If your backup program dives into the file despite stat()
> saying it's a file and you restore your backup, how are the
> "file is a file" semantics preserved ?
>
> Obviously this is something that needs to be sorted out at
> the VFS layer.
It needs to be sorted out, whether it is sorted out at the VFS layer is 
unimportant.

>  A filesystem specific backup and restore
> program isn't desirable, if only because then there'd be
> no way for Hans's users to switch to reiser5 in 2010 ;)
>
>  
It might be that we need a filenameA/metas/backup method for all of our 
file plugins, which if cat'd gives a set of instructions which if 
executed are adequate for restoring filenameA.

Hans
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