(reiserfs) Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams

Hans Reiser (reiser@ceic.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:14:45 +0000 (/etc/localtime)


If you don't do creat() on the directory, then you haven't configured an
overloaded name for a file and a directory. The rest is similar detail.

Hans

Richard Gooch writes:
> Hans Reiser writes:
> >
> > Nothing I have said makes it mandatory that you choose to do an open
> > or a create on the directory, or that you use any filters.
>
> I'm glad to hear that, but I don't understand how that would
> work. I've heard talk about automagically tarring up directories,
> accessing "default" files when opening a directory, and so on. So how
> do you make this user (per process) configurable?
>
> Especially if data filters/default opening/automagic tarring is put
> into the kernel/FS, how do you make that user configurable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....

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