Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:06:02AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into > > > granting you power over not only the BK history
> > It's exactly the same as a file system. If you put some files into a > > file system does the file system creator owe you the knowledge of how > > those files are maintained in the file system? > No, this is not a good analogy at all. It is just fine. > If I don't want to use a certain filesystem, I mount it and copy the > files over to another filesystem. What users are interested in are the > files themselves of course, and the efficiency with which the filesystem > handles those files. BK is the efficient filesystem here, but anyone > should be able to freely copy files over to another filesystem without > any need for the filesystem internals knowledge. If the target > filesystem is 8.3 without lowercase support then so be it and people > will need to use a separate file to hold the extra details that cannot > berepresented natively in the target filesystem. But absolutely 0% of > the information is lost. But what you want is not the files, but the whole history of the filesystem (what was written/changed/deleted when). > Again, the BK value is in the efficiency and reliability it has to > handle a tree like the Linux kernel, not in the Linux kernel tree. It's > not necessary for you to give away that value in order to provide the > simple information needed to reconstruct the Linux tree structure as > people are asking. linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2, and you even get the -bk patches! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
