From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:29:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20070618172955.GB24189@thunk.org> References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <20070616145337.GA13391@lazybastard.org> <20070618094524.GF5181@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070618140143.GD30244@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: alan Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:42343 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbXFRRao (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:30:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:16:30AM -0700, alan wrote: > > I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The > MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked > filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea. > (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with > non-forked filesystems.) Jeremy Alison used to be the one who was always pestering me to add Streams support into ext4, but recently he's admitted that I was right that it was a Very Bad Idea. As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system administrators couldn't find them. :-) - Ted