From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269833AbUH0ADo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:03:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269826AbUH0ABV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:01:21 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:18866 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269792AbUHZXxz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:53:55 -0400 Message-ID: <412E780F.7000009@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:53:51 -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: Chris Mason CC: Christoph Hellwig , 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: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825201929.GA16855@lst.de> <412DA25E.9090405@namesys.com> <1093527487.21878.270.camel@watt.suse.com> In-Reply-To: <1093527487.21878.270.camel@watt.suse.com> 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 Chris Mason wrote: > > >If the early linux filesystems had taken the same attitude you have >(don't write new filesystems, only write plugins), there would be no >framework allowing the wealth of filesystems we do have, including >reiser4. > > > Au contraire, with my approach, there would be 10x as many filesystems, because people would be easily able to mix-and-match different methods and plugins from different filesystems together, and if you wanted the MySQL semantics, you would mount mysql, and if you wanted the zope semantics you would mount zope.