From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267963AbUHZIur (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:50:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267866AbUHZIuS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:50:18 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:954 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267963AbUHZIob (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:44:31 -0400 Message-ID: <412DA2F0.9080903@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:44:32 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Spam CC: Andrew Morton , hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> In-Reply-To: <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime 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 Spam wrote: > >> The fact that one filesystem will >>offer features which other filesystems do not and cannot offer makes me >>queasy for some reason. >> >> > > This last sentence makes me wonder. Where is Linux heading? The idea > that a FS cannot contain features that no other FS has is very > scary. > > I am all for uniformity, but not at the expense of shutting down > advanced progress that Linux is so badly needing. > > This talk about old UNIX seems like people want to still live in the > 70'ies and not look forward. Please wake up! > > ~S > > > > > > well said.