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SubjectRe: (reiserfs) File systems are semantically impoverished compared to database
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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