Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additional namespace to ReiserFS

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:26AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>The xattr namespace offers zero functional advantage over the file 
>>namespace.  The use of '.' instead of '/' is idiotic, see the very short 
>>paper "The Hideous Name" by Rob Pike  ( www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/ 
>>) for why mindlessly varying the separators in hierarchical names 
>>throughout an OS is a bad idea. 
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>Hans, where have you been the last three years?  Hiding under a rock?
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>As for ACLs in v3 that's a decision of the maintainer, currently you're
>the formal maintainer, but I don't remember a single patch from you.
>Most of the linux 2.6 work has been done by Chris and quite a bit of
>work by your employees.  Chris is paid for doing a stable and working
>reiserfs variant for SuSE so he seems to be qualified for doing that, to..
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Did you notice that V4 blows XFS and ReiserFS V3 away in benchmarks?    
That is what I have been doing for 3 years....

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