Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268248AbUIBQlG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:41:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268337AbUIBQlG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:41:06 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:31631 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268248AbUIBQlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:41:02 -0400 Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives From: Alan Cox To: John Stoffel Cc: Hans Reiser , Linus Torvalds , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <16695.11572.597617.419870@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040902002431.GN31934@mail.shareable.org> <413694E6.7010606@slaphack.com> <4136A14E.9010303@slaphack.com> <4136C876.5010806@namesys.com> <4136E0B6.4000705@namesys.com> <16695.11572.597617.419870@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094139369.5574.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:36:13 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 17 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:24, John Stoffel wrote: > This is all pure marketing speak and economic theory. I wouldn't grace it with the label economic theory. Lets be honest about this.. its pure -research-. Research is good but don't screw around with Linux semantics until you've done the research, figured out how to also make it useful to real users and proved its a good idea despite the past evidence from things like MacOS Alan - 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/