On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 21:31 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Alina, > > let me repeat what Johannes mentioned earlier, please don't send emails > twice. Just use a proper working MUA and do Reply-All. > > > > and that is just plain wrong to begin with. If you want a one command do > > > everything, then do that in userspace and not inside a kernel API. > > > > Then why not implement deferent syscalls for floppy disks, hard disk > drives, solid state disks and normal files? If you want one generic > API than write an users-space library. > > > > Thought-out APIs sucks, MS-DOS rules! > > you are seriously comparing block devices to network device now? They > are different, go figure. You better bring technical arguments that > matter and not something far fetched from a total different technology. Well you could make that comparison, if you do it correctly... I guess the proposed mashed-up calls would be very much like configuring a remote raid storage by writing to the block device it exports. Needless (hopefully!!) to say, that is not a good idea. johannes
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