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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:51:15 +0200
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>   This last sentence makes me wonder. Where is Linux heading? The idea
>   that   a  FS  cannot  contain  features that no other FS has is very
>   scary.
> 
>   I  am  all  for  uniformity, but not at the expense of shutting down
>   advanced progress that Linux is so badly needing.
> 
>   This talk about old UNIX seems like people want to still live in the
>   70'ies and not look forward. Please wake up!

Just because semantics are at the VFS layer doesn't mean every
filesystem has to implement them.