Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 11:02:01PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I just want to remind that no one has been able to offer a good way of 
> handling attributes/streams/metafiles other than reiser4 in which 
> CTRL-XCTRL-Ffilename within emacs to edit the stream/attribute/metafile 
> will work without modifying the emacs source.  David Masover is right 
> that there are far more application writers than kernel hackers, and we 
> should make the kernel more complicated if it makes a few thousand apps 
> simpler.

This thread is getting a bit soft on technical details and/or value.

Hans, please post the results of fsstress (the bits from ext3 cvs) on
reiser4 on SMP machines of non-i386 architectures (e.g. ppc64, sparc64,
ia64) as well as the results of transferring reiser4 filesystems
between machines whose PAGE_SIZE, wordsize and endianness vary.


-- wli
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