From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:05:02 -0700 Message-ID: <412EEB2E.1020100@namesys.com> References: <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1939276887.20040826114028@tnonline.net> <20040826024956.08b66b46.akpm@osdl.org> <839984491.20040826122025@tnonline.net> <1906433242.20040826133511@tnonline.net> <20040826113332.GL2612@wiggy.net> <1211039639.20040826134354@tnonline.net> <1093592467.18603.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Spam , Wichert Akkerman , Christer Weinigel , Andrew Morton , jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Bernd Petrovitsch In-Reply-To: <1093592467.18603.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: >On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:43 +0200, Spam 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. >>> >>> >> Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix. >> >> > >Then you have to rewrite POSIX und SuSv3. > > Bernd > > Spam is right. Posix is a standard, not a vision, and the future is always a vision not a standard.