Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:57:26 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:50, Christophe Saout wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 16:38 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell: > > > > It has always bugged me that Gnome and KDE implement their own VFS layers. > > > > Same here. This always seemed like something the kernel should be able > > to handle. It seems to me that if reiser4 had been available at the > > time the Gnome and KDE developers would not have needed to do this. > > Well, the kernel doesn't have a filesystem that speaks http, scp and > those things. GnomeVFS is URL-based. It has some pseudo-protocols that > extract a pseudo directory-tree for all installed applications + the > changes the used made, created on the fly from a set of XML files that > are read-only and system-wide and the user-overridden changes. I don't > know if all of these things would really make sense inside the kernel. >
True. FWIW, I never use most of those features. It's just too damn slow. Windows seems to implement all of the useful features of GnomeVFS, and they are 10x faster.
Lee
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