Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268030AbUIBR45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268304AbUIBR4a (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:56:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:24743 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268065AbUIBRvi (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:51:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: James Bruce cc: Hans Reiser , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives In-Reply-To: <41371702.8030704@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: 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> <41371702.8030704@andrew.cmu.edu> 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: 1041 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, James Bruce wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >In other words, nobody is really ever going to take advantage of this. > >This is _not_ how technical advanncement happens. The way you get people > >to take advantage of something is to have a nice gradual ramp-up, not a > >sudden new feature that they can't realistically use. > > Sure, but there are plenty of existing interfaces that you could > emulate. Absolutely. We should look at them, and whether they solve any issues. I'm not saying that Hans would have to make up a new interface. Quite the reverse. One interface I suggested to use for attributes (and everybody hates ;) was the existing one from Solaris. Similarly, there are probably perfectly fine interfaces for the issue of transactions.. 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/