Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269367AbUICIDF (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:03:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269372AbUICIDF (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:03:05 -0400 Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:65508 "EHLO janus.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269368AbUICIBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:01:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:01:45 +0200 From: Frank van Maarseveen To: Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz Cc: Jamie Lokier , Rik van Riel , Denis Vlasenko , Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040903080145.GA8355@janus> References: <200408261034.38509.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826121223.GG30449@mail.shareable.org> <4137F4D9.7040206@pointblue.com.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4137F4D9.7040206@pointblue.com.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Subliminal-Message: Use Linux! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 25 On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:36:41AM +0200, Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >Is it a problem to decree that "file data MUST NOT be stored in a > >metadata directory; only non-essential metadata and data computed from > >the file data may be stored"? > > That's exactly what folks seem to lost in this debate. And that's not even the most important part: How would you educate all the developers _not_ on this list: application developers? I think this is just a disaster waiting for us to occur. > * be able to extract/modify file part on fly. > * be able to store metadata, that doesn't matter on copy those may be orthogonal. -- Frank - 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/