From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268067AbUHZJOO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:14:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268157AbUHZJOM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:14:12 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:10656 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268067AbUHZJC2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:02:28 -0400 Message-ID: <412DA725.4040200@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:02:29 -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: Christoph Hellwig CC: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Reiserfs developers mail-list Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412BA741.4060006@pobox.com> <20040824205343.GE21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040824212232.GF21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <412CDA68.7050702@namesys.com> <20040825184523.GA15419@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20040825184523.GA15419@lst.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >I don't think you'll get anywhere with auditing. We need to write down >the semantics you want, define them at the VFS level and make sure >they're not conflicting with defined userspace semantics or kernel >assumptions. > >I think you need to learn the basic distinction between the VFS layer >and a lowlevel filesystem driver. > > > > > How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with someone else? Hans