On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Compare it with mounting. NO. The point about backwards compatibility is that things WORK. There's no point in comparing things to how you _want_ them to work. The only thing that matters for bckwards compatibility is how they work _today_. And your suggestion would break every single installation out there. Not "maybe a few". Every single one. (yeah, you could find some NFS-only setup that doesn't break. Big deal). And backwards compatibility is extremely important. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
