Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:43:32 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>Over the last at least five years we've taken as much as possible >>semantics out of the filesystems and into the VFS layer, thus having >>a separation between the semantical layer (VFS) and the low level >>filesystem. Your attributes are absoultely a VFS thing and as such >>should not happen at the filesystem layer, and no, that doesn't mean >>they're bad per se, I just think they are a rather bad fit for Linux. >> >> > >Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to >support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer. > >On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks > > what is ugly? ;-/
>is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to >really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd >expect.. > > Linus > > > >
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