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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: herbert@13thfloor.at
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: consting operations
Date: 12 Jul 2003 01:16:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsof00irhe.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711224701.GA31052@www.13thfloor.at>

>>>>> " " == Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:

     > why do you think that filesystem ops should be read only?

What possible reason could there be for making them overwritable? 
Sounds like a recipe for disaster...

If you want to layer stuff on top of another filesystem, then surely
you can do that by methods that don't involve overwriting a globally
shared table.

Cheers,
  Trond
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-11 22:19 consting operations Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-11 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-12  3:02   ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-11 22:47 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-11 23:16   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2003-07-12 12:21     ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-14  7:08 ` David Woodhouse

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