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DateThu, 26 Aug 2004 21:34:36 +0200
FromChristoph Hellwig <>
SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:26:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> OK, real world example. My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very
> popular hardware sampler from the 90's. The disk format is known,there
> are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM
> samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC. Are you
> saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4
> plugin to mount an MPC drive?
>
> If so, then Hans has an excellent point. Users do want this kind of
> thing, and it is worth having to fix tar et al.

You don't need reiser4 for that, writing read-only linux filesystems is
trivial as soon as you have a specification of the ondisk format.

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