Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Frank van Maarseveen
2004-09-03T08:03:05Z

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:36:41AM +0200, Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> >Is it a problem to decree that "file data MUST NOT be stored in a
> >metadata directory; only non-essential metadata and data computed from
> >the file data may be stored"?
>
> That's exactly what folks seem to lost in this debate.

And that's not even the most important part: How would you educate all
the developers _not_ on this list: application developers? I think this
is just a disaster waiting for us to occur.

> * be able to extract/modify file part on fly.
> * be able to store metadata, that doesn't matter on copy

those may be orthogonal.

--
Frank