Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932488AbWHAPdf (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:33:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932519AbWHAPde (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:33:34 -0400 Received: from aben100.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.7.25.100]:35258 "EHLO pcserwis") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116AbWHAPdd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:33:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:32:52 +0200 To: "Linus Torvalds" , LKML , "reiserfs-list@namesys.com" Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) From: =?iso-8859-2?B?o3VrYXN6IE1pZXJ6d2E=?= Organization: PC Serwis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Linux) X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-PCSerwis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15.262, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 1.54, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-MailScanner-From: prymitive@pcserwis.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 22 Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds napisa?: > In other words, if a filesystem wants to do something fancy, it needs to > do so WITH THE VFS LAYER, not as some plugin architecture of its own. We > already have exactly the plugin interface we need, and it literally _is_ > the VFS interfaces - you can plug in your own filesystems with > "register_filesystem()", which in turn indirectly allows you to plug in > your per-file and per-directory operations for things like lookup etc. What fancy (beside cryptocompress) does reiser4 do now? Can someone point me to a list of things that are required by kernel mainteiners to merge reiser4 into vanilla? I feel like I'm getting lost with current reiser4 status and things that are need to be done. ?ukasz Mierzwa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/