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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:07:50 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:04:42PM +0200, Christophe Saout wrote:
> It should be a simple format. Something simliar to tar. The worst thing
> that can happen is people start writing plugins for every existing
> compound format out there. It should be the other way around, agree on a
> simple compound format and encourage applications to use this one if the
> want to use this advantage.

or placing this into a userspace helper that the kernel can invoke
transparently.  If you're doing funny thing like that for your swap
device deadlocks are the last of your worries :)