Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Nikita Danilov]

Jamie Lokier writes:
 > Christophe Saout wrote:
 > > What reiser4 can do, but the VFS can't is to insert or remove data in
 > > the middle of a file. Adding this above the page cache would probably be
 > > almost impossible (truncate seems already complicated enough).
 > 
 > That would be one of those "special features" that a
 > VFS-plus-userspace implementation of archive views could take
 > advantage of on reiser4, while using a slower method (sometimes much
 > slower) on all other filesystems.
 > 
 > By the way, can reiser4 share parts of files between different files?

It can, but fsck is supposed to cope with this. :)

 > 
 > -- Jamie

Nikita.

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