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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:43:54 +0200
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> Previously Spam wrote:
>>   How  so?  The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
>>   copying  should  also  know  to  copy  everything, otherwise you can
>>   implement  everything  into  applications  and  just  skip the whole
>>   filesystem part.

> UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
> manually.

  Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix.

> Wichert.