Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-26T16:12:44Z

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:04:42PM +0200, Christophe Saout wrote:
> It should be a simple format. Something simliar to tar. The worst thing
> that can happen is people start writing plugins for every existing
> compound format out there. It should be the other way around, agree on a
> simple compound format and encourage applications to use this one if the
> want to use this advantage.

or placing this into a userspace helper that the kernel can invoke
transparently. If you're doing funny thing like that for your swap
device deadlocks are the last of your worries :)