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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:25:39 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:24:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to 
> support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer. 
> 
> On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks 
> is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to 
> really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd 
> expect..

Oh, I'm the last person to tell anyone how to prototype things.  I just
don't want such inconsistancies in the mainline kernel.