Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266663AbUIJBQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:16:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266730AbUIJBQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:16:12 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([212.17.55.49]:15755 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266663AbUIJBQL (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:16:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:15:28 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Hans Reiser cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Robin Rosenberg , William Stearns , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why In-Reply-To: <4140FBE7.6020704@namesys.com> Message-ID: References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> <413E170F.9000204@namesys.com> <200409080009.52683.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040909090342.GA30303@thunk.org> <4140ABB6.6050702@namesys.com> <4140FBE7.6020704@namesys.com> X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 27 On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: > It is not part of it at one level, but in the shell it is part of it. Just one of many applications. Watch Joe-user save their word processing file sometime, they'll use spaces, quotes, etc. > Have you looked at the political process at all? Or by lots of > people, do you mean a sizable minority? Kernel development does require deep understanding by the majority of computer users. Only kernel developers need deep understanding. ;) The real question though is: Have you given Al Viro technical answers to his technical questions? regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Malek's Law: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. - 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/