Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additionalnamespace to ReiserFS

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 12:43:20 EST


Matthias Andree wrote:


If so, the whole discussion is about getting out of the frying pan and
into the fire. The traditional approach will then be standards compliant
but be out-of-band and outside of the file system name space, the new
approach will be outside of the standards, requiring application
developers to produce a Linux and a POSIX version.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree?



There is always friction between standards and innovation. One should comply with standards unless genuinely innovating.
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