Hans Reiser wrote: 

> Network appliance (.snapshot) and clearcase have
> demonstrated that 
> having a few keywords reserved in the namespace is
> not a problem.

Sure, and having a separate attribute namespace is not
a problem, and treating files and directories as
separate entities is not a problem... many other file
systems do these things successfully!  ;-)

My point is: even if it weren't a problem, it is not
elegant or user friendly.  It introduces an
unnecessary restriction on users (can't name your file
"metas"), and thus reduces usability by definition. 
This would be especially tragic, as ReiserFS is
otherwise such an elegant, brilliant and innovative
system.



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