Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

David Masover
2004-09-01T01:14:33Z

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Horst von Brand wrote:
| Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> said:
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|>David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> said:
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| [...]
[...]
| You do need extra tools anyway, placing them in the kernel is cheating
(and
| absolutely pointless, IMHO).

Repeat after me: plugins in kernel does NOT equal tools in kernel.

It's not hard to, for instance, imagine a generic plugin for archive
manipulation which talks to a userspace daemon/library. The kernel
doesn't know anything other than (maybe) a list of extensions that are
archives. All else is handled in userspace -- the idea that "this is a
zipfile" and "zipfiles can be extracted with the 'zip' command" are all
in userspace.

It's not about the kernel, it's about the interface. And see my other mail:
cat foo.zip/README
less foo.zip/contents/bar.c
is a lot easier than
lynx http://google.com/search?q=zip
emerge zip
man zip
unzip foo.zip
cat bar.c
which already assumes quite a lot of expertise.

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