On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:24:36 +0530, Amit Gud said: > A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory" > mechanism more logical in VFS itself,
There was quite the flame-fest on the lkml a while back regarding how the semantics of "file as a directory" should operate. There's a number of really nasty corner cases that you need to deal with. Go back and re-read the whole flame-fest, understand all the points raised, and let us know when you have a workable proposal. (Hint - "file as directory" broke a number of programs that didn't expect that a file *could* be a directory, when run on a reiser4 filesystem...)
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