From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: consting operations Date: 12 Jul 2003 01:16:45 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20030711221901.GO20424@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030711224701.GA31052@www.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:33779 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267044AbTGKXCG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:02:06 -0400 To: herbert@13thfloor.at In-Reply-To: <20030711224701.GA31052@www.13thfloor.at> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " =3D=3D Herbert P=F6tzl writes: > why do you think that filesystem ops should be read only? What possible reason could there be for making them overwritable?=20 Sounds like a recipe for disaster... If you want to layer stuff on top of another filesystem, then surely you can do that by methods that don't involve overwriting a globally shared table. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html