Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Pavel Machek
2004-09-02T20:42:25Z

Hi!

> > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way
> > > mc has done this for ages.
> >
> > Difference is that you can't do "locate" or "find" or "Search".. You
> > would have to open the files in an archive-supporting application
> > such as mc.
>
> And would you rather that logic was running swappable in shared library
> space or privileged and unswappable in kernel ?

Well, having it in kernel mean that cache gets actually shared between
different processes -- and that's usefull. With coda and similar tools
you can put most of the logic into userspace (kernel impact is 20
lines). You *will* want it to run priviledged, because otherwise
caches are useless.
Pavel