Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267653AbUIGGoZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:44:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267648AbUIGGoY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:44:24 -0400 Received: from note.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU ([129.94.242.24]:51420 "EHLO note.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267634AbUIGGoV (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 02:44:21 -0400 From: Neil Brown To: mjt@nysv.org (Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20T=F6rnqvist?=) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:43:11 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16701.22655.230704.534640@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: message from Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20T=F6rnqvist?= on Wednesday September 1 References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040901194445.GM26192@nysv.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-face: [Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:05:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >There's no point to having the kernel export information that is already > >inherent in the main stream. Having read this quote a few times in this thread I finally figured out what was wrong with it. It seems to imply that "iso9660" shouldn't be in the kernel. After all, it just exports information that is already in the underlying device. It doesn't provide any "mediate multiple access" benefit as a read-only filesystem doesn't require any mediation between users. It might provide some caching benefit, but I somehow don't think that is the reason that it is in the kernel. Now I'm happy to agree that there is a case for "iso9660" but not for "tarfs", but I don't think it is that "there's no point to having the kernel export information that is already [there]" NeilBrown - 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/