From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268736AbUHZLfP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:35:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268805AbUHZLfC (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:35:02 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.19]:955 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268652AbUHZLTz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:19:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:19:44 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Jamie Lokier Cc: helge.hafting@hist.no, riel@redhat.com, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, reiser@namesys.com, 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: <20040826041944.567b0589.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826104713.GA30449@mail.shareable.org> References: <412D968B.9030107@hist.no> <20040826022137.1504ffb7.pj@sgi.com> <20040826104713.GA30449@mail.shareable.org> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-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 > Too late. We have xattrs already; many programs don't store them. If by your "too late" you mean we can stop worrying about any more breakage of file system utilities, because there exists an example in which some were already broken, then you are absolutely wrong. Just because we caused some breakage doesn't give us license to cause even more. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373