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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 02:04:58 -0700
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>But _my_ point is, no user program is going to take _advantage_ of
>anything that only one filesystem on one system offers.
>
>So there's no point.
>
>I
>
Filesystem diversity will only be crippling for Linux if you choose for 
it to be so.