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Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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> >Yes, John has a point but we're not going to go and change all the other
>  >filesystems (are we?).
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>  why not?  It is correct therefor....

Because that's the way we've always done it and there have been zero
complaints about it and changing it risks breaking things.

I should think that's pretty obvious?