From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:19:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20040826041944.567b0589.pj@sgi.com> References: <412D968B.9030107@hist.no> <20040826022137.1504ffb7.pj@sgi.com> <20040826104713.GA30449@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: helge.hafting@hist.no, riel@redhat.com, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, reiser@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jamie Lokier In-Reply-To: <20040826104713.GA30449@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > Too late. We have xattrs already; many programs don't store them. If by your "too late" you mean we can stop worrying about any more breakage of file system utilities, because there exists an example in which some were already broken, then you are absolutely wrong. Just because we caused some breakage doesn't give us license to cause even more. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373