Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  
>
> > Over the last at least five years we've taken as much as possible
> > semantics out of the filesystems and into the VFS layer, thus having
> > a separation between the semantical layer (VFS) and the low level
> > filesystem.  Your attributes are absoultely a VFS thing and as such
> > should not happen at the filesystem layer, and no, that doesn't mean
> > they're bad per se, I just think they are a rather bad fit for Linux.
> >    
>
> Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to 
> support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer. 
>
> On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks 
>  
what is ugly? ;-/

> is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to 
> really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd 
> expect..
>
> 		Linus
>
>
>  

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