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Re: linux VFS and non-hierarchical filesystems?

To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: linux VFS and non-hierarchical filesystems?
From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:19:34 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:39:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm curious -- are there any filesystem implementations for linux
> that don't fit nicely into the VFS model?  that don't follow the
> convenient file/dentry/inode/superblock standard?
> 

I didn't read about VFS yet, but I've heard that ReiserFS-4 wasn't accepted
mainline due to VFS abuses. I don't know if those abuses were similar to
the one you mentioned.

Regards,

-- 
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com


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