Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261864AbVBIRox (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:44:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261865AbVBIRox (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:44:53 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:4873 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261864AbVBIRot (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:44:49 -0500 Message-Id: <200502091744.j19HiWtd011559@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Larry McVoy , Alexandre Oliva , Stelian Pop , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:30:54 EST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20050204183922.GC27707@bitmover.com> <20050204200507.GE5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050204201157.GN27707@bitmover.com> <20050204214015.GF5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050204233153.GA28731@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20050205193848.GH5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050205233841.GA20875@bitmover.com> <20050208154343.GH3537@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050208155845.GB14505@bitmover.com> <20050209155113.GA10659@bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1107971071_3925P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:44:31 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1160 Lines: 32 --==_Exmh_1107971071_3925P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:30:54 EST, Nicolas Pitre said: > If I don't want to use a certain filesystem, I mount it and copy the > files over to another filesystem. What users are interested in are the > files themselves of course, and the efficiency with which the filesystem > handles those files. That's Larry's point exactly - you don't care (or shouldn't, unless you're writing a competing product) any more about the BK internal metadata than you should care about how ext3 handles the journal or the free list. --==_Exmh_1107971071_3925P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCCkv+cC3lWbTT17ARAkwOAJ4hbhvkQQPJGx+AiFgjuUxNKuup0ACfegtl sdfPN2MLL0aZS5RL30q5PeA= =n9Kr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1107971071_3925P-- - 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/