Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Clay Haapala
2004-09-01T15:43:20Z

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Ryan Breen verbalised:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:38:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 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.

OK, I'll byte: consider file versioning of an SCM implemented as a
ReiserFS 4 plug-in, as in:

diff -u ultrastore.c/delta/3.2.3 ultrastore.c/delta/3.2.4

(Brrr! Just had a VMS flash-back shiver.)
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