Re: Plugin Patch (was Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation)

[Yoanis Gil Delgado <fred@uh.cu>]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 01:24, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Hans,
>
> you've said that these kinds of plugins should be something a weekend
> warrior could tackle. Our group had a real stab and dumped hundreds of man
> hours into the project with little effect. Admittedly, we were not
> experienced kernel hackers, but we were all comfortable in low-level C and
> quite happy to read source.
>
> I request that a simple plugin be maintained as a standalone patch to
> Reiser4
>
> Ideally, there would be a small set of these plugins demonstrating how to
> create a new plugin which operates within the existing disk structure, and
> one that extends the on-disk format in a safe way.
>
> This would allow interested parties to see in isolation what a Reiser4
> plugin looks like and would further provide a conceptual grappling point
> for the development of a new plugin.
>
> I have been getting requests for just such a plugin to be added to my
> reiser4 developer's wiki (http://pvh.ca/trac/wiki/reiser4) at a rate of
> about one every two months. A few successful third-party plugins would
> hopefully increase interest in this.
>
> I realise you and your team are up to your necks in serious work on
> hardcore lowlevel material, but I believe a brief diversion of some of your
> resources would provide a significant reward.
>
> Right now, the cost-of-entry appears to be set too high for developers
> outside your team to approach the project.
>
> If this information is already out there somewhere, great. I will integrate
> it in the R4DevWiki and answer questions as best I can. If anyone out there
> disagrees with me about the current difficulty of producing even a simple
> plugin, let them prove me wrong with a patch.
>
> -pvh

We most take the advance.I suggest to all people interested in this to spent a 
full weekend creating such a plugin. There is a possibility of failure 
but..... we will gather enough question for the people at namesys and they 
can share some ligth. Then we spent another weekend and so on...