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SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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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