Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-25T18:45:41Z

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:28:56AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I allowed myself to get talked out of a final top to bottom code audit,
> and obviously that was a mistake.
>
> It will probably take about 6 weeks. Apologies for wasting your time
> before that was done.

I don't think you'll get anywhere with auditing. We need to write down
the semantics you want, define them at the VFS level and make sure
they're not conflicting with defined userspace semantics or kernel
assumptions.

I think you need to learn the basic distinction between the VFS layer
and a lowlevel filesystem driver.