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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Fibration questions
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:03:20 -0700
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To: David Dabbs <david@dabbs.net>
Cc: 'David Masover' <ninja@slaphack.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

David Dabbs wrote:

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>While I'm a reiser4 'true believer,' other VFS filesystems do and will
>continue to exist. Might an application developer's job be complicated if
>not every filesystem for which it presents a file list supports metas or
>some means to query file objects' type?
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Maybe I should start describing reiser4 as a VFS layer enhancement, and 
indicate that the plugins are the FS, and then reiser4 can be a linux 
standard.;-)

Hans