From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter van Hardenberg Subject: Plugin Patch (was Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:24:16 -0800 Message-ID: <200602272224.19908.pvh@uvic.ca> References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <44036470.8050305@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart2762861.Vmls878RHi; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-reply-to: <44036470.8050305@namesys.com> List-Id: To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com --nextPart2762861.Vmls878RHi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hans, you've said that these kinds of plugins should be something a weekend warri= or=20 could tackle. Our group had a real stab and dumped hundreds of man hours in= to=20 the project with little effect. Admittedly, we were not experienced kernel= =20 hackers, but we were all comfortable in low-level C and quite happy to read= =20 source. I request that a simple plugin be maintained as a standalone patch to Reise= r4.=20 Ideally, there would be a small set of these plugins demonstrating how to=20 create a new plugin which operates within the existing disk structure, and= =20 one that extends the on-disk format in a safe way. This would allow interested parties to see in isolation what a Reiser4 plug= in=20 looks like and would further provide a conceptual grappling point for the=20 development of a new plugin. I have been getting requests for just such a plugin to be added to my reise= r4=20 developer's wiki (http://pvh.ca/trac/wiki/reiser4) at a rate of about one=20 every two months. A few successful third-party plugins would hopefully=20 increase interest in this. I realise you and your team are up to your necks in serious work on hardcor= e=20 lowlevel material, but I believe a brief diversion of some of your resource= s=20 would provide a significant reward.=20 Right now, the cost-of-entry appears to be set too high for developers outs= ide=20 your team to approach the project. If this information is already out there somewhere, great. I will integrate= it=20 in the R4DevWiki and answer questions as best I can. If anyone out there=20 disagrees with me about the current difficulty of producing even a simple=20 plugin, let them prove me wrong with a patch. =2Dpvh =2D-=20 Peter van Hardenberg (pvh@pvh.ca) Victoria, BC, Canada --nextPart2762861.Vmls878RHi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEA+yTdnKLARTlqzgRAsZ2AJ0a719u1p9DXZGIGP3q7f2r5GD8vQCdH6s4 T8npV/PIjsBcI85vkhKIvT4= =3Xat -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2762861.Vmls878RHi--