From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269304AbUH0DDb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:03:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269378AbUHZSxM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:53:12 -0400 Received: from smtp10.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.21]:25910 "EHLO mwinf1003.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269317AbUHZSnG (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:43:06 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Thomas Cataldo To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040826093407.GB28854@lst.de> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> <20040826093407.GB28854@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:40:27 +0200 Message-Id: <1093545627.11770.2.camel@buffy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.93 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:34 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:31:34AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > Andrew, we need to compete with WinFS and Dominic Giampaolo's filesystem > > for Apple, and that means we need to put search engine and database > > Dou you know a nice thing? We (as in the Linux Community) don't have to > compete with anyone. Sure, we're usually trying to be better than > anyone else, but unlike companies under maret pressure we can wait until > something is ready. By the way, this kind of features can be achieved easily in userspace with, for example, ext3, beagle (a userspace fulltext indexing daemon) and some (d|i)notify magic.