Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

Hans Reiser
2004-09-03T06:35:38Z

David Masover wrote:

>
> The use of ext3 as a filesystem isn't cross-platform. Every disk-write
> is platform-specific! We should all be using captive-ntfs instead!

;-)

All this stuff about how no filesystem should be allowed to have
semantic features others don't, it seems very Bolshevist to me.

Let Linux have an ecosystem with a diverse ecology of filesystems, and
the features that work will reproduce to other filesystems. I thought
that was the Linus way?

If not, why did I spend 10 years laying the storage layer groundwork for
semantic enhancements when I could have taken that job at Sun as
filesystems architect and made a lot more money?

I want to tinker. Let me play in my sandbox, and if you don't like what
I do, don't imitate it..... I think there are plenty of users who like
reiser4 though....

Linus, trying to outguess someone who has spent 2 decades studying
namespace design as to what will be useful to users is risky. Look at
reiser4's performance, see if it obsoletes V3, and if it does then let
me play a bit.

Objecting on the grounds that it causes VFS bugs is reasonable, but I
answered those questions and you did not respond (I can resend if
asked). If you really really don't like what we do to VFS, well, we can
confine ourselves to sys_reiser4(), but that is only a last resort from
my view.

Hans