Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:13:42 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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I think Jeremy is accurate in saying the below.
Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>What compelling reason is there for doing this in the kernel? >> >> > > >Because without kernel support there is no way someone can >publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported >by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only >apps that are aware of it can see it). Without kernel support >you have to have all apps agree on a data format. And >that's harder to do than getting linux kernel VFS engineers >to agree on things :-). > >Jeremy. > > > >
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