Re: reiser4 plugins

David Masover
2005-07-04T18:47:42Z

Horst von Brand wrote:
> David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
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>>David Weinehall wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:08:58AM -0500, David Masover wrote:
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>>>>David Weinehall wrote:
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>>>>>GNOME and KDE run on operating systems that run other kernels than
>>>>>Linux, hence they have to implement their own userland VFS anyway.
>>>>>Adding this to the Linux kernel won't help them one bit, unless
>>>>>we can magically convince Sun to add it to Solaris, all different
>>>>>BSD:s to add it to their kernels, etc. Not going to happen.
>>>>>An effort to get GNOME and KDE to unify their VFS:s would be
>>>>>far more benificial,
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>>>>Than what? Creating a unified VFS which I can access from Bash,
>>>>and which obsoletes both GNOME and KDE's VFSes except in their
>>>>presentation?
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>>>On one of the platforms that they support, yes. But only for kernels
>>>newer than 2.6.yy... So they'd still have to have their own VFS for
>>>2.4.xx, 2.6.xx (xx < yy), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc...
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>>Right. But, /proc started somewhere, didn't it?
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> Sun.
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>>I have the feeling that other systems will duplicate it if it's good.
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> Linux copied here.

So what?

>>Even if they don't, it would be more beneficial to me
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> How, exactly?

Go back and read.

> Besides, /your/ convenience isn't the only thing that matters...

Nor yours. Just because you can't get your mind around a concept
doesn't mean that it's a bad concept, and that no one else can use it.

>> and probably
>>most Linux users
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> "Most Linux users" don't use experimental filesystems at all...

Actually, they do -- ext3 was experimental once. ReiserFS was very
experimental once.

Please stop bashing it just because it's new/experimental.

>> to have metafs supported in both GNOME and KDE, even
>>if they still need an emulation layer to support other systems.
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> So Gnome and KDE get larger (and thus slower) for everybody.

Smaller (and thus faster) on supported systems, otherwise exactly the
same, but maybe a little more modular, which is good.

> Besides, Gnome
> and KDE will have to agree on the formats involved first, which is /exactly/
> what is supposed to be impossible unless this stuff is implemented in the
> kernel...

I never said that, but for one thing, whether they do or not, it's nice
if my shell and my editor and all the other things that I use don't have
to agree on anything to manipulate the formats involved.

This is not just about GNOME/KDE. It is about GNOME/KDE not developing
an additional layer, that you wouldn't like anyway, that cannot be
accessed from anything except GNOME/KDE.