Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266572AbUIEM2b (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:28:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266566AbUIEM2b (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:28:31 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:3474 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266572AbUIEM1v (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:27:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:27:39 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <285406007.20040905142739@tnonline.net> To: Tonnerre CC: Alan Cox , Lee Revell , Pavel Machek , Horst von Brand , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , , Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: <20040905120758.GI26560@thundrix.ch> 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> <1094152590.5726.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040905120758.GI26560@thundrix.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1453 Lines: 39 > Salut, > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:16:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> 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 > Even KIOslave has it. They even support sftp and stuff just by using > shared files in /tmp in reality. That's a much saner interface than > doing it all in the kernel. > I mean, the kernel is supposed to support access to the disk > drives. Who says that it's got to be the uppermost VFS level? You can > be perfectly happy to build your own VFS on top of it (or use other's > implementations, that is.) Yes, we have several VFS versions. KDE and Gnome has their own, mc another, and so on. None is compatible with the other and all data is unavailable if you do not use a program specifically coded to use the particular VFS you stored the data with. > I can already see people moving to FreeBSD if this gets implemented > into the kernel... Why? No one has to use it. you do not have to load FS/VFS plugins so you can extend the functionality of your filesystem with stuff like compression, encryption, sorting, filtering, etc etc.. > Tonnerre - 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/