On Thu, 24 May 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:23:27AM +0200, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> > Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > > > It's going to be marked 'd', it's a directory, not a file.
> > > >
> > > > Aha. So you lose the S_ISCHR/BLK attribute.
> > >
> > > Readdir fills in a dire
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > > *boggle*
> > > >
> > > >[general sense of unease]
> >
> > I fully agree with Oliver. It's an abomination.
>
> We are, or at least, I am, investigating this question purely on
> technical grounds - name calling is a noop. I'd be happy to find a
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I don't think it's likely to be even workable. Just consider the
> > directory entry for a moment - is it going to be marked d or [cb]?
>
> It's going to be marked 'd', it's a directory, not a file.
Are we talking about the same proposal? The one
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 21 May 2001 19:16, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > What I'd like to see:
> >
> > - An interface for registering an array of related devices (almost
> > always two: raw and ctl) and their legacy device numbers wit
iple openers don't make sense. Opening a floppy at
different densities with magic filenames was an example Linus used earlier
in the thread. Surely there can be more than one drive and more than one
serial port.
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 May 200
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Why are LVM and EVMS(competing LVM project) needed at all?
>
> Surely the same can be accomplished with
> * md
> * snapshot blkdev (attached in previous e-mail)
> * giving partitions and blkdevs the ability to grow and shrink
> * giving filesystems the ab
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Let's distinguish between per-fd effects (that's what name in
> open(name, flags) is for - you are asking for descriptor and telling
> what behaviour do you want for IO on it) and system-wide side effects.
>
> IMO encoding the former into name is perfe
