From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:02:01 -0700 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <413D4ED9.5090206@namesys.com> References: <200409070206.i8726vrG006493@localhost.localdomain> <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Horst von Brand , Spam , Tonnerre , Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:11660 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267594AbUIGGCf (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:02:35 -0400 To: David Masover In-Reply-To: <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org I just want to remind that no one has been able to offer a good way of handling attributes/streams/metafiles other than reiser4 in which CTRL-XCTRL-Ffilename within emacs to edit the stream/attribute/metafile will work without modifying the emacs source. David Masover is right that there are far more application writers than kernel hackers, and we should make the kernel more complicated if it makes a few thousand apps simpler.