Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Thats how you get yourself a non useful OS. Fix it in a library and
> > share it between the apps that care. Like say.. gnome-vfs2
> 
> Even KIOslave has  it. They even support sftp and  stuff just by using
> shared files  in /tmp in reality.  That's a much  saner interface than
> doing it all in the kernel.
> 
> I  mean,  the  kernel  is  supposed  to support  access  to  the  disk
> drives. Who says that it's got  to be the uppermost VFS level? You can
> be perfectly happy to build your own  VFS on top of it (or use other's
> implementations, that is.)

You can not reasonably do caching when you are in shared library. And
you can not do caching across users at all.

								Pavel
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