From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:36:13 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094139369.5574.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040902002431.GN31934@mail.shareable.org> <413694E6.7010606@slaphack.com> <4136A14E.9010303@slaphack.com> <4136C876.5010806@namesys.com> <4136E0B6.4000705@namesys.com> <16695.11572.597617.419870@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hans Reiser , Linus Torvalds , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:31631 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268248AbUIBQlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:41:02 -0400 To: John Stoffel In-Reply-To: <16695.11572.597617.419870@gargle.gargle.HOWL> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:24, John Stoffel wrote: > This is all pure marketing speak and economic theory. I wouldn't grace it with the label economic theory. Lets be honest about this.. its pure -research-. Research is good but don't screw around with Linux semantics until you've done the research, figured out how to also make it useful to real users and proved its a good idea despite the past evidence from things like MacOS Alan