From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:34:36 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040826193436.GA8693@lst.de> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> <20040826014542.4bfe7cc3.akpm@osdl.org> <412DAC59.4010508@namesys.com> <1093548414.5678.74.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:21214 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269483AbUHZTfw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:35:52 -0400 To: Lee Revell Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093548414.5678.74.camel@krustophenia.net> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:26:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > OK, real world example. My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very > popular hardware sampler from the 90's. The disk format is known,there > are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM > samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC. Are you > saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4 > plugin to mount an MPC drive? > > If so, then Hans has an excellent point. Users do want this kind of > thing, and it is worth having to fix tar et al. You don't need reiser4 for that, writing read-only linux filesystems is trivial as soon as you have a specification of the ondisk format.