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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:56:05 -0700
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To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:

>Previously Spam wrote:
>  
>
>>  How  so?  The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
>>  copying  should  also  know  to  copy  everything, otherwise you can
>>  implement  everything  into  applications  and  just  skip the whole
>>  filesystem part.
>>    
>>
>
>UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
>manually.
>
>Wichert.
>
>  
>
See sys_reiser4()..... ;-)  you can go "A<-B".  I have hopes of getting 
drive vendors to support us in doing single disk copies without even 
leaving the disk drive.....