Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:50:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, James Bruce wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >In other words, nobody is really ever going to take advantage of this. > >This is _not_ how technical advanncement happens. The way you get people > >to take advantage of something is to have a nice gradual ramp-up, not a > >sudden new feature that they can't realistically use. > > Sure, but there are plenty of existing interfaces that you could > emulate.
Absolutely. We should look at them, and whether they solve any issues.
I'm not saying that Hans would have to make up a new interface. Quite the reverse. One interface I suggested to use for attributes (and everybody hates ;) was the existing one from Solaris. Similarly, there are probably perfectly fine interfaces for the issue of transactions..
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