From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:47:40 -0700 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040907064740.GA31444@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040901194445.GM26192@nysv.org> <16701.22655.230704.534640@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]:8693 "EHLO pimout3-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267648AbUIGGsN (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:48:13 -0400 To: Neil Brown Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16701.22655.230704.534640@cse.unsw.edu.au> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:43:11PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > It seems to imply that "iso9660" shouldn't be in the kernel. After > all, it just exports information that is already in the underlying > device. Some applications do isofs/udf in userspace, DVD playback for example. > It doesn't provide any "mediate multiple access" benefit as a > read-only filesystem doesn't require any mediation between users. Umm... you can have permissions for users and you need the kernel to determine who can access what. --cw