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Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 09:52, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Christophe Saout wrote:
> 
> > That's your opinion. reiser4 seems to work very well.
> 
> Have you tried /bin/cp, or a backup+restore ?
> 
> What happened to your file streams ?

Shrug, backup programs can be fixed.  The fact that we couldn't backup
16GB files before O_LARGEFILE wasn't a reason not to do it.

IMHO it's more important to ask the question 'is this important for
linux' and then we can figure out how to make it work.

-chris