Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Thomas Cataldo
2004-08-27T03:03:31Z

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:34 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:31:34AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Andrew, we need to compete with WinFS and Dominic Giampaolo's filesystem
> > for Apple, and that means we need to put search engine and database
>
> Dou you know a nice thing? We (as in the Linux Community) don't have to
> compete with anyone. Sure, we're usually trying to be better than
> anyone else, but unlike companies under maret pressure we can wait until
> something is ready.

By the way, this kind of features can be achieved easily in userspace
with, for example, ext3, beagle (a userspace fulltext indexing daemon)
and some (d|i)notify magic.