Re: aal_assert()

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

Andrew Clausen wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:30:08PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
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>>These "message ids" are traditional way reiserfs code uses to identify
>>errors (probably because early during development preprocessor features
>>were unknown) and Hans feels himself attached to them emotionally. :-)
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>Well, I'll give some arguments against this scheme:
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>(1) it's more code, more work, more space, etc.  Programmers are
>minimalists, and adding extra stuff feels dirty.
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>(2) "ids" are the Wrong Way to identify things... things should
>be identified by their essence, not by tags.  This is the whole
>OO vs relational database flamewar.  Relational databases
>(the "by essense/being, not tag") won, game over.
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>You don't query things by tags, but by what they are.
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>I know this is all quite subjective... I just wanted to provide
>some emotional arguments as well as rational ones *grin*
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>Another thing: I'd like to see libaal reused in all file system
>tool implementations.  That's my main motivation for cleaning it
>up.  My first target is ntfs...
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It is more reasonable. Probably Hans will agree with you because of this.

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>Cheers,
>Andrew
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Yury Umanets