Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266813AbUIJKYH (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:24:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267234AbUIJKYH (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:24:07 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:60078 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266813AbUIJKYD (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:24:03 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why From: Alan Cox To: Hans Reiser Cc: Paul Jakma , "Theodore Ts'o" , Robin Rosenberg , William Stearns , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <414135E6.8050103@namesys.com> 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> <414135E6.8050103@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094808053.17029.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:20:54 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 31 On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 06:04, Hans Reiser wrote: > > Just one of many applications. Watch Joe-user save their word > > processing file sometime, they'll use spaces, quotes, etc. > With great unhappiness they will. Its only problematic for the command line users. The GUI doesn't have some mysterious notion of meta-characters, it provides out of band information on boundaries. > This is why I just want to be left alone to tinker with reiser4. It is > faster than other filesystems. People should assume I know what I am > doing, and leave me to tinker in my little fs. 5 years later others will > follow, or not, I don't care. See I don't care if you tinker with reiser4. I don't care if it turns out to be a crap fs or a great fs. If its a great fs and scales and unlike reiser3 can recover well from disk errors then one year I might even use it. I do care if you ask me to suffer core API changes for your research, that in your economics world is an externality. Its a large negative externality on the part of the userbase so the userbase objects. It doesn't take a PhD in economics to understand this. Alan - 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/