On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:51:20PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:37 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > As I said to Dave, you and I have a strong difference of opinion here. > > I think that what you are proposing is madness. You're making it too > > flexible which comes with too much opportunity for abuse. > > Such as? One proposal I saw earlier in this thread was to do something like $ runalt /path/to/file ls which would open_alt() /path/to/file, fchdir to it and run ls inside it. That's just crazy. > > I just want > > to see alternate data streams for the same filename in order to support > > existing use cases. You seem to be able to want to create an entire > > new world inside a file, and that's just too confusing. > > To whom? I'm sure users of ancient systems with a flat directory > found directory trees very confusing. Yet it turned out that the > hierarchical system beat the heck out of the flat one. Which doesn't mean that multiple semi-hidden hierarchies are going to be better than one visible hierarchy.
