From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:11 -0400 Message-ID: <417D5CEF.8080005@tmr.com> References: <417B1574.4090406@slaphack.com><417B1574.4090406@slaphack.com> <417B3A34.2060306@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <417B3A34.2060306@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: David Masover , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_T=F6rnqvi?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?st?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hans Reiser wrote: > David Masover wrote: > >> >> Some people don't care about speed but need space. I'd leave them in on >> general principle, even if no one wants them now. > > > Software design is usually improved by identifying features that aren't > worth much, and removing them from the interface and burying them where > average users don't see them (or dumping them completely). Interface > clutter has a cost. We already have a section of odd things a user might want to do on a small, embedded, or special use. That might be a good place to put it. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me