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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:04:03 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:01:17PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

> Better to have the contents accessible via a separate stream, in the
> same namespace.  Fix it once in the kernel vs. fix it in umpteen
> apps.

This is ridiculous.  We have shared libraries, 99% of applications
manage to use libc for example --- this isn't that different.


  --cw