Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-27T08:16:17Z

I think Jeremy is accurate in saying the below.

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>>What compelling reason is there for doing this in the kernel?
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>Because without kernel support there is no way someone can
>publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported
>by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only
>apps that are aware of it can see it). Without kernel support
>you have to have all apps agree on a data format. And
>that's harder to do than getting linux kernel VFS engineers
>to agree on things :-).
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>Jeremy.
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