Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-07T06:48:13Z

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:43:11PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:

> It seems to imply that "iso9660" shouldn't be in the kernel. After
> all, it just exports information that is already in the underlying
> device.

Some applications do isofs/udf in userspace, DVD playback for example.

> It doesn't provide any "mediate multiple access" benefit as a
> read-only filesystem doesn't require any mediation between users.

Umm... you can have permissions for users and you need the kernel to
determine who can access what.

--cw