Re: File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-31 Thread Hans Reiser
Jonathan Briggs wrote: > >Why innovate in the filesystem though, when it would work just as well >or better in the VFS layer? > Why don't we just have one filesystem, think of the advantages. ;-) I don't try to get other people to follow my lead anymore, I just ship code that works. Putting

Re: File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-31 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 01:19 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Fri, 27 May 2005 23:56:35 CDT, David Masover said: > > > > > > > >>Hans, comment please? Is this approaching v5 / v6 / Future Vision? It > >>does seem more than a little "clunky" when applied to v4... > >>

Re: File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-30 Thread Hans Reiser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, 27 May 2005 23:56:35 CDT, David Masover said: > > > >>Hans, comment please? Is this approaching v5 / v6 / Future Vision? It >>does seem more than a little "clunky" when applied to v4... >> >> Well, if you read our whitepaper, we consider relational algebra

Re: File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 May 2005 23:56:35 CDT, David Masover said: > Hans, comment please? Is this approaching v5 / v6 / Future Vision? It > does seem more than a little "clunky" when applied to v4... I'm not Hans, but I *will* ask "How much of this is *rationally* doable without some help from the VFS?".

Re: File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-27 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans, comment please? Is this approaching v5 / v6 / Future Vision? It does seem more than a little "clunky" when applied to v4... Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > Leo Comerford wrote on Wed, 18 May 2005 12:50:38 +0100: > >>But if you have relation-di

File as a directory - Ordered Relations

2005-05-27 Thread Alexander G. M. Smith
Leo Comerford wrote on Wed, 18 May 2005 12:50:38 +0100: > But if you have relation-directories and the ability to find the > pathnames of a given file, you can do everything you can do with > subfiles, just as nicely, and more besides. And if subfiles are > completely redundant and bad news anyway,