> But what about making directories into files? We should get rid of one > or the other, is my point. Give all filesystem objects children (which > are other filesystem objects) and then as many 'channels' as they > like, for app and OS specific things (ACL channel, owner channel, byte > channel, diff channel...).
of course directories are files. the whole file system is a file. filesystems role in life is to turn a linear array of blocks into something with heirarchy. often that linear array of blocks is known as a disk drive. (mbox format is a directory masquerading as a file and so is /adm/keys.) - erik
