Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday September 1, mjt@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:05:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >There's no point to having the kernel export information that is already 
> >inherent in the main stream.

Having read this quote a few times in this thread I finally figured
out what was wrong with it.

It seems to imply that "iso9660" shouldn't be in the kernel.  After
all, it just exports information that is already in the underlying
device. 
It doesn't provide any "mediate multiple access" benefit as a
read-only filesystem doesn't require any mediation between users.
It might provide some caching benefit, but I somehow don't think that
is the reason that it is in the kernel.

Now I'm happy to agree that there is a case for "iso9660" but not for
"tarfs", but I don't think it is that "there's no point to having the
kernel export information that is already [there]"

NeilBrown
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/