From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:20:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20040826042043.15978b0a.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1939276887.20040826114028@tnonline.net> <20040826024956.08b66b46.akpm@osdl.org> <839984491.20040826122025@tnonline.net> <20040826032457.21377e94.akpm@osdl.org> <742303812.20040826125114@tnonline.net> <20040826035500.00b5df56.akpm@osdl.org> <1453776111.20040826131547@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, 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: Spam In-Reply-To: <1453776111.20040826131547@tnonline.net> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Spam wrote: > > Secondly, do you expect file managers like Nautilus and Konqueror to > support every piece of file format on the planet so they could read > information directly from the documents? Sure. You're proposing that we implement a single, golden multi-stream file format in the kernel. We could just as well do that in libmultistreamfileformat.so. But I'll grant that one cannot go adding new metadata to, say, C files this way. I don't know how useful such a thing is though. Remember that my main point is that there's a lack of coordination in userspace. Hell, there's none. Putting it in-kernel forces that coordination, and may be the way to go, but it's pretty sad.