From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank van Maarseveen Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:01:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20040903080145.GA8355@janus> References: <200408261034.38509.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826121223.GG30449@mail.shareable.org> <4137F4D9.7040206@pointblue.com.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jamie Lokier , Rik van Riel , Denis Vlasenko , Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4137F4D9.7040206@pointblue.com.pl> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:36:41AM +0200, Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >Is it a problem to decree that "file data MUST NOT be stored in a > >metadata directory; only non-essential metadata and data computed from > >the file data may be stored"? > > That's exactly what folks seem to lost in this debate. And that's not even the most important part: How would you educate all the developers _not_ on this list: application developers? I think this is just a disaster waiting for us to occur. > * be able to extract/modify file part on fly. > * be able to store metadata, that doesn't matter on copy those may be orthogonal. -- Frank