Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Horst von Brand
2004-09-06T18:14:38Z

Spam <spam@tnonline.net> said:

[...]

> The problem with the userspace library is standardization. What
> would be needed is a userspace library that has a extensible plugin
> interface that is standardized. Otherwise we would need lots of
> different libraries, and I seriously doubt that 1) this will happen
> and 2) we get all Linux programs to be patched to use it.

What is the difference with a kernel implementation? Not by being in-kernel
will it make all the incompatible ways of doing this magically vanish, and
give outstanding performance. Plus handling and maintaining the in-kernel
stuff is _much_ harder than userspace libraries.

I'd go the other way around: Get userspace to agree on a common framework,
make it work in userspace; if (extensive, hopefully) experience shows that
a pure userspace solution has issues that can't be solved except by kernel
assistance, so be it.
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