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This was a core design feature of reiserfsv4, but Linux ultimately refused to merge it, probably not helped by the whole murdering-his-wife thing.
by lmm 3y ago
This was a core design feature of reiserfsv4, but Linux ultimately refused to merge it, probably not helped by the whole murdering-his-wife thing.
- skissane 3y ago> This was a core design feature of reiserfsv4, but Linux ultimately refused to merge it IIRC, because it contained these strange beasts which functioned as both files and directories - i.e. cat would return data, but then you could cd into them and run ls. Linus (among others) didn’t want to permit those violations of the file-directory dichotomy into the Linux kernel.
- stuaxo 3y agoOh that's funny- I remember a much much earlier Linus mentioning how this would he possible in Linux, I didn't know anyone actually did it. I think you really should be able to "cd" into any kind of structured data.