Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-25T22:51:15Z

> This last sentence makes me wonder. Where is Linux heading? The idea
> that a FS cannot contain features that no other FS has is very
> scary.
>
> I am all for uniformity, but not at the expense of shutting down
> advanced progress that Linux is so badly needing.
>
> This talk about old UNIX seems like people want to still live in the
> 70'ies and not look forward. Please wake up!

Just because semantics are at the VFS layer doesn't mean every
filesystem has to implement them.