Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269318AbUICGQs (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:16:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269062AbUICGQs (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:16:48 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:20166 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269018AbUICGQJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:16:09 -0400 Message-ID: <41380C2C.1030609@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:16:12 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Masover CC: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Frank van Maarseveen , Dave Kleikamp , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> <20040902220027.GD23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <4137B5F5.8000402@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: <4137B5F5.8000402@slaphack.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 32 I don't think streams are a good thing, I think that all of the different pieces of additional functionality necessary to emulate them with files and directories are a good thing. Keeping streams out of linux was one of the (less important) ideas behind reiser4. Streams are a rigid hack. The toolkit that can emulate them, is useful, and the perceived importance of that emulation will fade as people start to use the toolkit for things that are much more fun than streams. I agree with most of the rest of what you say though David. Hans David Masover wrote: > File-as-a-dir has numerous advantages, but enough have been discussed. > Short list is image mounts, tarballs, streams, metas, and namespace > unification. Longer list and explanations can be found if you RTFA. - 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/ - 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/