From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:47:36 -0700 Message-ID: <41341F08.7050401@namesys.com> References: <412F7D63.4000109@namesys.com> <20040829150041.GD9471@alias> <4133CA74.6070906@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: flx@msu.ru, Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.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: David Masover In-Reply-To: <4133CA74.6070906@slaphack.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org David Masover wrote: > > > And I did mention before about how it'd be nice for it to be an fs > chunk... Please define fs chunk. My mind has an open door.;-) > > Imagine 5000 tiny little files that, by the time reiser's done with > them, fit inside 5 blocks or so. It's insanely cheaper to copy the five > blocks than to tar them up. It also means that we don't have to worry > about supporting tar on other platforms -- if they don't have reiser4, > they need a separate converter. If apps are going to use reiser4 > metadata for anything significant, they probably would link against some > sort of userland implementation of reiser4 as a Windows library, say, to > access the files elsewhere. > > That's extreme, but you get the idea.