From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Petrovitsch Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:41:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1093592467.18603.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> References: <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1939276887.20040826114028@tnonline.net> <20040826024956.08b66b46.akpm@osdl.org> <839984491.20040826122025@tnonline.net> <1906433242.20040826133511@tnonline.net> <20040826113332.GL2612@wiggy.net> <1211039639.20040826134354@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1211039639.20040826134354@tnonline.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Spam Cc: Wichert Akkerman , Christer Weinigel , Andrew Morton , jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:43 +0200, Spam wrote: > > Previously Spam wrote: > >> How so? The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the > >> copying should also know to copy everything, otherwise you can > >> implement everything into applications and just skip the whole > >> filesystem part. > > > UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data > > manually. > > Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix. Then you have to rewrite POSIX und SuSv3. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services