On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:24:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now this I agree with, in the sense that I think that if we want to > support this, it should be supported at a VFS layer. > > On the other hand, I think doing it inside the filesystem with ugly hacks > is an acceptable way to prototype the idea before it's been proven to > really be workable. Maybe it has more problems with legacy apps than we'd > expect..
Oh, I'm the last person to tell anyone how to prototype things. I just don't want such inconsistancies in the mainline kernel.
