Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:46:18 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) File systems are semantically impoverished compared to database |
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Hi,
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:35:12 +0000 (/etc/localtime), Hans Reiser <reiser@ceic.com> said:
> The goal of reiserfs is not to get every person, who has invented yet > another namespace that can share the interactions it conducts with no > other namespace, to convert to reiserfs. The goal of reiserfs is to one > by one eliminate the reasons why these new namespaces keep getting > invented rather than using the filesystem namespace. I cannot > unify the namespaces, I can only somewhat reduce the reasons why they > fragment, and pontificate a bit at those who fragment them.
Portability is one of the major reasons why these new namespaces keep getting invented. One single filesystem _cannot_ fix that: not without updating NFS too, at the very very least.
--Stephen
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