Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:48:13 -0700 | | From | Hans Reiser <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 06:04, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>>Just one of many applications. Watch Joe-user save their word >>>processing file sometime, they'll use spaces, quotes, etc. >>> >>> >>With great unhappiness they will. >> >> > >Its only problematic for the command line users. The GUI doesn't have >some mysterious notion of meta-characters, it provides out of band >information on boundaries. > > Forgive me, what is out of band information on boundaries?
Most people I know don't use the GUI for executing commands, perhaps this is because the existing guis are not good enough yet.
> > >>This is why I just want to be left alone to tinker with reiser4. It is >>faster than other filesystems. People should assume I know what I am >>doing, and leave me to tinker in my little fs. 5 years later others will >>follow, or not, I don't care. >> >> > >See I don't care if you tinker with reiser4. I don't care if it turns >out to be a crap fs or a great fs. If its a great fs and scales and >unlike reiser3 can recover well from disk errors then one year I might >even use it. > > Is there a technical basis for your claim that we have trouble with disk errors?
Do you mean badblocks support or what?
>I do care if you ask me to suffer core API changes for your research, >that in your economics world is an externality. Its a large negative >externality on the part of the userbase so the userbase objects. It >doesn't take a PhD in economics to understand this. > >Alan > > > > > I think it would be reasonable for people to say that our approach currently has bugs, we should turn metafiles off until we make the bugs go away.
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