Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:34:36 +0200 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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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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