Messages in this thread | | | From | Justin Banks <> | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:37:12 -0700 | Subject | Re: Out of tree module using LSM |
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Al Viro wrote > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:12:38PM -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > > > It's not perfect, but as was recently pointed out, if you can only get > > 98% of the way there rather than 100% is that a reason for not trying to > > make it possible? > > BTW, that's a fine example of a common fallacy: "$FOO is 98% of the way to > $TARGET" does not allow to interpolate the properties of $TARGET to those > of $FOO. > > Telling that a condom is a 98% approximation to platonic ideal of such is > not particulary useful, especially if it turns out that what this number > really means is that there's a hole on its tip covering 2% of surface...
Understood, but for this use case (and indexing, probably replication, IDS, and others) hooking at the "normal" VFS layer would provide enough flexibility to do what's needed. I'm not saying it should be done, only that it'd work, provide more use cases for linux, and not be totally unsupportable.
-justinb
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