Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

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Date: 08/29/04

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    Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:36:29 +0100
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>

    On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:28:42AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
    > just use a view, and skip the options on the system calls. if you cd to
    > /nometas/your_home_directory_path you don't see the metafiles. Why is a
    > view better than a syscall flag? Because it lets the user choose what
    > he wants without recompiling to do it. This kind of a view requires no
    > coding because you can just mount the root filesystem two ways, one with
    > the -nopseudos mount option, and one without it.

    *What*?

    OK, now I want detailed explanation of the reasons why that doesn't create
    cache coherency problems.

    Do you have an analysis of locking in the entire thing?
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