Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:41:52 +0400 | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Jamie Lokier writes: > Christophe Saout wrote: > > What reiser4 can do, but the VFS can't is to insert or remove data in > > the middle of a file. Adding this above the page cache would probably be > > almost impossible (truncate seems already complicated enough). > > That would be one of those "special features" that a > VFS-plus-userspace implementation of archive views could take > advantage of on reiser4, while using a slower method (sometimes much > slower) on all other filesystems. > > By the way, can reiser4 share parts of files between different files?
It can, but fsck is supposed to cope with this. :)
> > -- Jamie
Nikita.
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