From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266149AbUHYX3a (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:29:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266242AbUHYX3a (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:29:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:61630 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266149AbUHYX3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:29:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:32:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Spam Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-Id: <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Spam wrote: > > > In other words, if reiserfs does something special, we should make > > standard interfaces for doing that special thing, so that everybody can > > do it without stepping on other peoples toes. > > Agreed that would be the best. But how much time and effort will it > be Zero. We can add these new features tomorrow, as reiser4-only features, with a plan in hand to generalise them later. -->>__if__<<-- we think these are features which Linux should offer.