From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269139AbUHZQMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:12:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269184AbUHZQLE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:11:04 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:10714 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269164AbUHZQIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:08:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:07:50 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christophe Saout Cc: Rik van Riel , Jamie Lokier , Denis Vlasenko , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, 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: <20040826160750.GC4326@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Christophe Saout , Rik van Riel , Jamie Lokier , Denis Vlasenko , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <1093536282.5482.6.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093536282.5482.6.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.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 On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:04:42PM +0200, Christophe Saout wrote: > It should be a simple format. Something simliar to tar. The worst thing > that can happen is people start writing plugins for every existing > compound format out there. It should be the other way around, agree on a > simple compound format and encourage applications to use this one if the > want to use this advantage. or placing this into a userspace helper that the kernel can invoke transparently. If you're doing funny thing like that for your swap device deadlocks are the last of your worries :)