Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 06:38:49 EST


> Too late. We have xattrs already; many programs don't store them.

If by your "too late" you mean we can stop worrying about any more
breakage of file system utilities, because there exists an example
in which some were already broken, then you are absolutely wrong.

Just because we caused some breakage doesn't give us license to cause
even more.

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