From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265195AbUHZGzo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:55:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267683AbUHZGzo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:55:44 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:56463 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265195AbUHZGzl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:55:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:53:58 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Nicholas Miell Cc: mpm@selenic.com, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, akpm@osdl.org, spam@tnonline.net, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-Id: <20040825235358.36626f06.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1093496948.2748.69.camel@entropy> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1093480940.2748.35.camel@entropy> <20040826044425.GL5414@waste.org> <1093496948.2748.69.camel@entropy> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > "OMG! It breaks tar and email!!!" argument doesn't fly. Things break all > the time and are fixed. It's called progress. Yes - we break things all the time. But we take notice, when we are breaking things, of how long standing and deeply embedded they are. The deeper the roots, the more respect we show it, and the harder it will be to change. Heaping scorn on someone who is reluctant to change something as deeply embedded as "a file is a byte stream" does not further the discussion. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373