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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    Hi!

    > >Plus mount required root priviledges last time I checked.
    >
    > bash$ ls -l /bin/mount
    > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 78504 May 4 23:34 /bin/mount
    >
    > with proper policies in userspace it allows users to perform mounts.

    You want to do exec() each time you enter a archive? I do not think
    that is good idea.

    > I'm not suggesting that the kernel should be unchanged, but really,
    > some of the proposals here, to put a hell of a lot of complexity into
    > the kernel it just wet dreams with not much thought of how it affects
    > the kernel. What happened to the philosophy of putting complexity and
    > policy in userspace? Look at khttpd and tux, they were hacks in the
    > kernel to try things out. But what ended up in the kernel is generic
    > infrastructure that is useful for a lot more applications than just a
    > web server. That is the right way to do things.

    Well, generic infrastructure for uservfs would be enough for me... And
    it is few lines in kernel.
    Pavel
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