On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> [My version: keep interface constant, reorganize kernel source
> to do certain things in one place instead of in several places.
> Advantage: treatment becomes uniform and some options that make sense
> for all filesystem types but are available today for some only
> are generalized.
> Your version: invent a new interface, be silent about what happens
> inside the kernel.]
Current interface had grown an impressive collection of warts. Worse
yet, you _can't_ put parsing into generic code. There are filesystems
that have a binary object as 'data'. And there are filesystems that
do post-mount authentication via ioctls on root directory.
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