From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:12:33 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040828111233.GA11339@lst.de> References: <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> <20040826014542.4bfe7cc3.akpm@osdl.org> <1093522729.9004.40.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040826124929.GA542@lst.de> <1093525234.9004.55.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040826130718.GB820@lst.de> <1093526273.11694.8.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040826132439.GA1188@lst.de> <20040828105929.GB6746@alias> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:25242 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266114AbUH1LNJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:13:09 -0400 To: flx@msu.ru, Christoph Hellwig , Christophe Saout , Andrew Morton , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040828105929.GB6746@alias> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:59:29PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote: > Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:24:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This VFS interface is an integral part of ??very filesystem, and it > > VFS never was "an integral part" of ANY filesystem. my dog knows it. > its just unified INTERFACE TO any filesystem (including reiser4). You's misquoting me. IF you quoted the whole context it'd be pretty sure that the part of the filesystem that intefaces with the VFS is meant. But one could even say VFS is integral part of a linux filesystem as it does most of the work a filesystem driver does in other operating systems. > P.S. I imagine, how much flamed it would be if reiser4 made any intensive > changes in linux VFS code... It really depends on how you sent them. If you had a big patch without explanations - sure.