Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:47:40 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= <mjt@nysv.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
       viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>,
       ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:43:11PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:

> 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.

Some applications do isofs/udf in userspace, DVD playback for example.

> It doesn't provide any "mediate multiple access" benefit as a
> read-only filesystem doesn't require any mediation between users.

Umm... you can have permissions for users and you need the kernel to
determine who can access what.


  --cw
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