Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161054AbWBYSwJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:52:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161057AbWBYSwJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:52:09 -0500 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.176]:25824 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161054AbWBYSwH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:52:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oTbbfD747yXY3hPHHAy4dtkAQ8m7Q2/d2IzvRHskQD6R7EP+DEtEUQlBdK1JNLtGpPoqPSZTrmexHGBOo1s7vg9xIpW5hf8JByztvR+5SSFT7gJEhe2HzNjfmTmYqhmEMZgDp6MeyU5/hvxClmA7qCF61dFzWuNhdtgzUNrxX7g= Message-ID: <9a8748490602251052p3e56334ei755c9ce2100e03c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:52:06 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Rik van Riel" Subject: Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation Cc: "Maciej Soltysiak" , "Jan Engelhardt" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602250735l6161a96dte2805b772a89a436@mail.gmail.com> <612760535.20060225181521@dns.toxicfilms.tv> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 31 On 2/25/06, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > > > Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still > > dealing with lots of text files today. > > You say it like it's a bad thing, but in truth I suspect > people often deal with text files because they're EASY > to manipulate through scripts, etc. > I agree 100%, plain text serial files are *easy*. Given the swiss-army knife of tools we have at our disposal (cat, cut, head, tail, sed, awk, split, sort, grep and many more), plain text files are very easy to manipulate - not to mention write apps to manipulate. And that is a very good thing IMHO. I can imagine quite a mess if I open a file that is really a view of several files and then start manipulating text in it across "actual file" boundaries that could blow up easily. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/