Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

I think Jeremy is accurate in saying the below.

Jeremy Allison wrote:

> > What compelling reason is there for doing this in the kernel?
> >    
>
>
> Because without kernel support there is no way someone can
> publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported
> by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only
> apps that are aware of it can see it). Without kernel support
> you have to have all apps agree on a data format. And
> that's harder to do than getting linux kernel VFS engineers
> to agree on things :-).
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
>  

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