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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:56:29 -0700
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Maybe you should learn from netatalk.

I am well aware of what netatalk does. However netatalk
isn't as widely used as Samba. Things they can get away
with would cause our user community to flay us alive.

We need a proper solution, not a nasty hack.

That's like me telling you to "learn from *BSD". You have
different user constituencies, you have to serve yours,
I have to serve mine.

Jeremy.