Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way
> > > mc has done this for ages.
> > 
> >   Difference is that you can't do "locate" or "find" or "Search".. You
> >   would have to open the files in an archive-supporting application
> >   such as mc.
> 
> And would you rather that logic was running swappable in shared library
> space or privileged and unswappable in kernel ?

Well, having it in kernel mean that cache gets actually shared between
different processes -- and that's usefull. With coda and similar tools
you can put most of the logic into userspace (kernel impact is 20
lines). You *will* want it to run priviledged, because otherwise
caches are useless.
								Pavel
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