From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:44:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:44:05 -0400 Received: from hermes-3.bizonline.net ([212.95.128.7]:55813 "HELO thefreeinternet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:43:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B376A53.422A824@qub.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:44:03 +0100 From: Sam Halliday <10226982@qub.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: supermount 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 This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --------------------------------------------------------------- hello, i have only been using linux for about a year, i am a physicist and i need its fast number crunching for my programs, i have recently become interrested in the kernel (i believe everyone should have some understanding of their tools), i have noticed supermount is not a standard part of this project, is there a good reason why this is? i apologise if this is a very silly question as i am sure it is, but it really does seem to me to be an essential feature, are there any plans to include it as a standard feature or is this due to man-power? i know patches do exist out there (all beit, really hard to find for recent 2.4.5) anyways, keep up the good work, i wish i knew enough about the whole thing to help out in some way, Sam, Ireland