From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767711AbXCJBbQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:31:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767712AbXCJBbQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:31:16 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:47192 "EHLO netops-testserver-4.corp.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767711AbXCJBbP (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:31:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:31:15 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com, menage@google.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, winget@google.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@sw.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcfs core patch Message-Id: <20070309173115.c70aa20a.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070310010041.GD3647@MAIL.13thfloor.at> References: <20070301133543.GK15509@in.ibm.com> <20070301134528.GL15509@in.ibm.com> <20070308101347.GA29051@in.ibm.com> <20070309004816.GB4506@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <20070309181422.GB21661@in.ibm.com> <20070309112547.3e82deca.pj@sgi.com> <20070310010041.GD3647@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Herbert wrote: > personally, I'd prefer to avoid hierarchical > structures wherever possible, Sure - avoid them if you like. But sometimes they work out rather well. And file system API's are sometimes the best fit for them. I'm all for choosing the simplest API topology that makes sense. But encoding higher dimension topologies into lower dimension API's, just because they seem "simpler" results in obfuscation, convolution and obscurity, which ends up costing everyone more than getting the natural fit. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401