From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269026AbUHaTVB (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:21:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268966AbUHaTQw (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:16:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:38820 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268906AbUHaTMZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:12:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4134CD8B.4060409@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:12:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik 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: Ryan Breen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1093480940.2748.35.camel@entropy> <20040826044425.GL5414@waste.org> <1093496948.2748.69.camel@entropy> <20040826053200.GU31237@waste.org> <20040826075348.GT1284@nysv.org> <20040826163234.GA9047@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <20040831033950.GA32404@zero> <413400B6.6040807@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: 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 Ryan Breen wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:38:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Man, this thread came a long way. >> > > > You said it -- from Reiser to microkernel. If we can only figure out > a way to get a BitKeeper discussion going, we'll have the Grand > Unified Flamewar. If you can find a link between the reiserfs thread and the webcam driver thread, you've gone all the way from filesystems to Nazis, thus invoking Godwin's Law ;-) Jeff [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law