On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:39:23 BST, Peter Foldiak said: > Back in November 2004, I suggested on the linux-kernel and reiserfs > lists that the Reiser4 architecture could allow us to abolish the > unnatural naming distinction between directories/files/parts-of-file > (i.e. to unify naming within-file-system and within-file naming) in an > efficient way. > I suggested that one way of doing that would be to extend XPath-like > selection syntax above the (XML) file level. I believe the consensus was that this needs to happen at the VFS layer, not the FS level. The next step would be designing an API for this - what would the VFS present to userspace, and in what way, and how would backward combatability be maintained?
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