Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264250AbUD0Rjs (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264231AbUD0RjH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:39:07 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:8596 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264222AbUD0Re7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:34:59 -0400 Message-ID: <408E99EB.6050203@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:35:39 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additional namespace to ReiserFS References: <1082750045.12989.199.camel@watt.suse.com> <408D3FEE.1030603@namesys.com> <1083000711.30344.44.camel@watt.suse.com> <408D51C4.7010803@namesys.com> <1083006783.30344.102.camel@watt.suse.com> <20040426204037.GA21455@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20040426204037.GA21455@merlin.emma.line.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 20 Matthias Andree wrote: > >If so, the whole discussion is about getting out of the frying pan and >into the fire. The traditional approach will then be standards compliant >but be out-of-band and outside of the file system name space, the new >approach will be outside of the standards, requiring application >developers to produce a Linux and a POSIX version. > >Or am I barking up the wrong tree? > > > There is always friction between standards and innovation. One should comply with standards unless genuinely innovating. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/