Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-26T08:43:32Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>>Over the last at least five years we've taken as much as possible
>>semantics out of the filesystems and into the VFS layer, thus having
>>a separation between the semantical layer (VFS) and the low level
>>filesystem. Your attributes are absoultely a VFS thing and as such
>>should not happen at the filesystem layer, and no, that doesn't mean
>>they're bad per se, I just think they are a rather bad fit for Linux.
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>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.
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>On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks
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what is ugly? ;-/

>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..
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> Linus
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