Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Christer Weinigel]

David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Second, there are quite a few things which I might want to do, which can
> be done with this interface and without patching programs, but would
> require massive patches to userspace.  There have been numerous
> examples.

Please give one example?  There is a lot of handwaving here on all
sides.

> | I'd go the other way around: Get userspace to agree on a common framework,
> | make it work in userspace; if (extensive, hopefully) experience shows that
> | a pure userspace solution has issues that can't be solved except by kernel
> | assistance, so be it.
> 
> We already have such a framework -- it's called "VFS".

That you'd like to break the semantics of.  Great.

  /Christer

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