Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>  
>
> > All of which can be handled in userspace library code.
> >
> > What compelling reason is there for doing this in the kernel?
> >    
>
> There's a compelling reason to do it in userspace.  If an
> unaware program copies or moves such a file with streams
> inside, it doesn't break the streams and aware programs will
> continue to see them.
>
> OTOH, if we had the streams in the kernel, unaware applications
> would continuously break the metadata and streams that the
> streams aware programs expect !
>
>  
Well, first off, you don't want streams in the kernel, you want all the 
little pieces that can be composed together into a stream if you so 
choose.  Streams are ugly, the pieces are all cool.
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