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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. > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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