>-> And as for compatability issues, I'd prefer to "solve" that "problem"
>-> with a vfs, rather than by being bug-compatible with the past.  But
>-> then, I'm a pretty iconoclastic changenik in some respects, as I'm sure
>-> many of you already know :-)
>
>In general, I think that's the best way to do it, but I'm not volunteering
>to implement it 8-)

Are you guys talking about using the portal filesystem, or are you
talking about writing a new vfs?