Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:13:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:
> It is the tail that should not wag the dog.
That's no reason for dismissing technical questions with vigorous handwaving.
> New semantics are going to break backups other than dd. We need a LOT > of new semantics if we don't want to be inferior to Apple and MS.
Technical objections need to be addressed, otherwise Linux will end up inferior to Apple and MS. Whatever choice we end up making, it should be something that's both workable and elegant.
It would be really nice if all the technical issues were worked out on linux-kernel before the files-as-directories stuff gets merged. There are quite a few technical questions in the thread that haven't been answered yet...
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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