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Hans Reiser wrote: | David Masover wrote: | |> |> doing atomic operations -- because a system call named "reiser4" | | | Maybe I should call it sys_reiser and not sys_reiser4? ;-) What about | the name is not portable? ;-)
Um. Suppose someone wanted to duplicate it on (say) ext3? Then the name sys_reiser becomes confusing.
But I bet your system call does more than just define atoms, right? Or it's supposed to?
Is there an advantage to having one system call, instead of many? (sys_begin_atom, sys_end_atom, sys_keyword_search, and so on...)
If so, you either want to try to turn it into a standard (so all new filesystems will have a sys_reiser call) or create a library to abstract the system call away (something like atom_new, atom_end, and so on). In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the "atomic" features could even be implemented entirely as a userland library on top of the filesystem, at least as long as the power is on ;)
I like your way better, but I also like the idea of making those features so widespread (even poorly implemented) that programs start adopting them.
No matter how good reiser4 is, I don't think everyone will start using it overnight. And its atomicity means very little to the average user if it isn't ubiquitous. I want cp, vim, thunderbird, and so on to all support reiser4-style atoms. If they can do that without a reformat for existing users/developers, it's more likely to happen in such mainstream apps, and it helps make reiser4 more useful.
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