From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268637AbUHYUct (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268657AbUHYU3k (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:29:40 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:21697 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268637AbUHYUYI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:24:08 -0400 Message-ID: <412CF545.7070601@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:23:33 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , Linus Torvalds , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > Making files into directories caused only two applications out of the > entire OS to notice the change, and that was because of a bug in what > error code we returned that we are going to fix. You think that was a > disaster; I think it was a triumph. > Since we have such a performance lead, Namesys is about to change its > focus from the storage layer to semantics, look at > www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html for details. Semantic enhancements are > the important stuff, and finally Namesys is where we have all the > storage layer prerequisites done right, and the real work can begin. Just curious about your comments on Jamie Lokier's suggestions for enabling files-as-directories semantics without breaking existing apps. Chris