Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269006AbUIBUWF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:22:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268988AbUIBUUm (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:20:42 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:20113 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268970AbUIBUT4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:19:56 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Pavel Machek , Spam , Horst von Brand , 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 In-Reply-To: <1094155277.11364.92.camel@krustophenia.net> References: <1094079071.1343.25.camel@krustophenia.net> <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1535878866.20040902214144@tnonline.net> <20040902194909.GA8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1094155277.11364.92.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094152590.5726.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:16:35 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 15 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 21:01, Lee Revell wrote: > But is it efficient to make every application that reads files have to > know how to get inside a tar file, just to read its contents? That > seems like a massive duplication of effort. Better to have the contents > accessible via a separate stream, in the same namespace. Fix it once in > the kernel vs. fix it in umpteen apps. Thats how you get yourself a non useful OS. Fix it in a library and share it between the apps that care. Like say.. gnome-vfs2 - 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/