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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:41:32 -0700
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>, Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>, Ross Biro <ross.biro@gmail.com>, Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Horst von Brand wrote:

>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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>>I think the exokernel approach by Frans is a very interesting approach. 
>>I wish I had the experience with it necessary to know if it was
>>effective.  I do NOT take the position that name resolution should be in
>>the kernel.  I DO take the position that it should be either in the
>>kernel or out of the kernel, and should constitute one cohesive and
>>coherent body of code.
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>Right.
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>>                        If someone talks Linus into trying the exokernel
>>approach,
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>Are you nuts?! Such radical experiments do /not/ belong in the kernel on
>which millions of machines depend!
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Your response is a flame, and I will not respond to it.