Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:32:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: albods are not a clean set of orthogonal primitives (was Re: File systems are semantically impoverished compared to database and keyword systems: it is time to change!) |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I really think the thing should be something like just > > lookup("default"); > > Remember: it would be implemented as if it was an implied symlink, so you > can move them around and do whatever to them, it's just that there would > bea shorthand for opening a special name under the directory. > > And it is ONLY a shorthand. Nothing more.
*That* is 100% OK with me. Somehow I suspect that it's not the thing asked by, ahem, innovators on a killing spree... BTW, we don't need a special fs for that - it can be done right now on ext2. I don't see the point of exercise, but it's not too terrible bloat.
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