From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Gilmore Subject: Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:45:17 +0000 Message-ID: <200510241345.17620.jgilmore@glycou.com> References: <200510231850.45209.jgilmore@glycou.com> <200510241225.45686.jgilmore@glycou.com> <435D3110.8060204@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <435D3110.8060204@namesys.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: > John Gilmore wrote: > > How are plugin/file > >relationships handled without it? > > For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file > plugin for regular files per superblock. > Then (if everything will be okay) we will granulate the relationship. > > Edward. So the first beta of compression will only have the option to control it at mkfs time? And then later on, compression control and status information will be available on a per-file (or per-directory) basis via a user-space tool operating on mounted filesystems? Which tool will also be extendable to control and give status information (where applicable) on other types of plugins? Is there a page that I could go to - some sort of "Major feature changes" page - to see what the current status of the filesystem is? To answer such questions as "Is compression ready for beta?" and "what the heck happened to file-as-directory?" and "I saw mention of a test of the reiser4 repacker, and also mention of compile problems with repacker.c, which definitely doesn't exist in MY version of resier4 - what gives?" (though I've concluded that that last one must be somebodies copy of alpha software...)