Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236AbWHAQ5z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:57:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751461AbWHAQ5y (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:57:54 -0400 Received: from tzec.mtu.ru ([195.34.34.228]:15884 "EHLO tzec.mtu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbWHAQ5x (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:57:53 -0400 Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz?= Mierzwa Cc: LKML , "reiserfs-list@namesys.com" In-Reply-To: References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:43:33 +0400 Message-Id: <1154450613.10043.136.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1701 Lines: 45 Hello On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote: > Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds > napisał: > > > 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? it is supposed to provide an ability to easy modify filesystem behaviour in various aspects without breaking compatibility. > Can someone point me to a list of things that are required by kernel > mainteiners to merge reiser4 into vanilla? list of features reiser4 does not have now: O_DIRECT support - we are working on it now various block size support quota support xattrs and acls list of warnings about reiser4 code: I think that last big list of useful comments (from Christoph Hellwig ) is addressed. Well, except for one minor (I believe) place in file release. Currently, Andrew is trying to find some time to review reiser4 code. > I feel like I'm getting lost with current reiser4 status and things that > are need to be done. > > Łukasz 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/