Herbert wrote: > personally, I'd prefer to avoid hierarchical > structures wherever possible, Sure - avoid them if you like. But sometimes they work out rather well. And file system API's are sometimes the best fit for them. I'm all for choosing the simplest API topology that makes sense. But encoding higher dimension topologies into lower dimension API's, just because they seem "simpler" results in obfuscation, convolution and obscurity, which ends up costing everyone more than getting the natural fit. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> 1.925.600.0401 _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers