Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-31T06:47:36Z

David Masover wrote:

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> And I did mention before about how it'd be nice for it to be an fs
> chunk...

Please define fs chunk. My mind has an open door.;-)

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> Imagine 5000 tiny little files that, by the time reiser's done with
> them, fit inside 5 blocks or so. It's insanely cheaper to copy the five
> blocks than to tar them up. It also means that we don't have to worry
> about supporting tar on other platforms -- if they don't have reiser4,
> they need a separate converter. If apps are going to use reiser4
> metadata for anything significant, they probably would link against some
> sort of userland implementation of reiser4 as a Windows library, say, to
> access the files elsewhere.
>
> That's extreme, but you get the idea.