Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

viro
2004-08-29T18:36:43Z

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:28:42AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> just use a view, and skip the options on the system calls. if you cd to
> /nometas/your_home_directory_path you don't see the metafiles. Why is a
> view better than a syscall flag? Because it lets the user choose what
> he wants without recompiling to do it. This kind of a view requires no
> coding because you can just mount the root filesystem two ways, one with
> the -nopseudos mount option, and one without it.

*What*?

OK, now I want detailed explanation of the reasons why that doesn't create
cache coherency problems.

Do you have an analysis of locking in the entire thing?