From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:50:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20090110165033.GA23943@logfs.org> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org> <20090109211937.GA14342@logfs.org> <20090110124335.GB30744@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Brown , Phil Oester , Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:57629 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751944AbZAJQvO (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:51:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090110124335.GB30744@elte.hu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 10 January 2009 13:43:35 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >=20 > What does a performance hit have to do with an ABI? Absolutely nothin= g -=20 > if such a bug is noticed it is fixed, that's it. Your argument does n= ot=20 > parse and makes absolutely zero technical sense. >=20 > Your "ABI is forever" objection against a _read only_ filesystem is a= =20 > newbie mistake worthy of cookie file inclusion - i had a real good la= ugh=20 > when i read it ;-) Thank you, glad to be of service. Should I have picked an example wher= e the code becomes horribly convoluted and there is nothing you can do about it? But since I am clearly the newbie, could you try to teach my stupid ass instead of just ridiculing it? What is the thing that makes a read onl= y filesystem special? And why does everyone believe that I am arguing against merging squashfs when I'm not? J=C3=B6rn --=20 The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -- John Powell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html