Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-25T20:25:39Z

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:24:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to
> support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer.
>
> On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks
> is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to
> really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd
> expect..

Oh, I'm the last person to tell anyone how to prototype things. I just
don't want such inconsistancies in the mainline kernel.