Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268261AbUIBUo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:44:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269097AbUIBUnr (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:43:47 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:29373 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269043AbUIBUm1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:42:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:42:25 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: Spam , Horst von Brand , Lee Revell , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040902204225.GD8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1094079071.1343.25.camel@krustophenia.net> <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1535878866.20040902214144@tnonline.net> <1094151338.5645.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094151338.5645.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 23 Hi! > > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way > > > mc has done this for ages. > > > > Difference is that you can't do "locate" or "find" or "Search".. You > > would have to open the files in an archive-supporting application > > such as mc. > > And would you rather that logic was running swappable in shared library > space or privileged and unswappable in kernel ? Well, having it in kernel mean that cache gets actually shared between different processes -- and that's usefull. With coda and similar tools you can put most of the logic into userspace (kernel impact is 20 lines). You *will* want it to run priviledged, because otherwise caches are useless. Pavel - 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/