Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268114AbUIBRsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268030AbUIBRsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:48:07 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50851 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268064AbUIBRrW (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:47:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:46:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) In-Reply-To: <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in > > user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security > > issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype > > it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support > > for better performance might be possible. > > Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported > it since the late 1990's. And nobody has asked for kernel support that I know of. So either "it just works" in user space, or people haven't figured out the kernel could help them. Or decided it's not worth it, exactly because they'd still have to support systems/filesystems that can't be converted. Linus - 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/