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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:17:10 -0700
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Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,  linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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 ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>,
 Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Jamie Lokier wrote:

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>>>By the way, can reiser4 share parts of files between different files?
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>>At the moment a file is exactly one object. But someone could write
>>another file plugin that spans a file across multiple objects, then yes,
>>multiple files could share parts.
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>Nice.  That's useful for files which appear as themselves and also as
>part of a container.
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>And also for revision managed filesystems :)
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>-- Jamie
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Inheritance is one of the unimplemented reiser4 features that Vitaly is 
working on.