From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:16:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20040827101638.A29672@infradead.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825201929.GA16855@lst.de> <412DA25E.9090405@namesys.com> <1093527487.21878.270.camel@watt.suse.com> <412E780F.7000009@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Mason , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , Linus Torvalds , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Hans Reiser Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412E780F.7000009@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:53:51PM -0700 List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:53:51PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > >If the early linux filesystems had taken the same attitude you have > >(don't write new filesystems, only write plugins), there would be no > >framework allowing the wealth of filesystems we do have, including > >reiser4. > > > > > > > Au contraire, with my approach, there would be 10x as many filesystems, > because people would be easily able to mix-and-match different methods > and plugins from different filesystems together, and if you wanted the > MySQL semantics, you would mount mysql, and if you wanted the zope > semantics you would mount zope. And if you wanted to make free love you'd make free love you'd make free love and there would be piece on all earth.. You seem to have lost contact to reality a little.