From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266245AbUHYW45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266292AbUHYWyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:54:00 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:50629 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266291AbUHYWvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:51:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:51:15 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Spam Cc: Andrew Morton , Hans Reiser , hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040825225115.GA19808@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Spam , Andrew Morton , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > This last sentence makes me wonder. Where is Linux heading? The idea > that a FS cannot contain features that no other FS has is very > scary. > > I am all for uniformity, but not at the expense of shutting down > advanced progress that Linux is so badly needing. > > This talk about old UNIX seems like people want to still live in the > 70'ies and not look forward. Please wake up! Just because semantics are at the VFS layer doesn't mean every filesystem has to implement them.