From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:43:32 -0700 Message-ID: <412DA2B4.6030709@namesys.com> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825201929.GA16855@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>Over the last at least five years we've taken as much as possible >>semantics out of the filesystems and into the VFS layer, thus having >>a separation between the semantical layer (VFS) and the low level >>filesystem. Your attributes are absoultely a VFS thing and as such >>should not happen at the filesystem layer, and no, that doesn't mean >>they're bad per se, I just think they are a rather bad fit for Linux. >> >> > >Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to >support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer. > >On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks > > what is ugly? ;-/ >is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to >really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd >expect.. > > Linus > > > >