Re: Where are the plugins?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:

> I've been looking at the reiser4 source code for a few days, and I 
> can't find any non-essential plugins. 

This is called the minimal functionality for first release project 
management style. ;-)

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> For example: You say on the website that you've written several 
> security plugins for DARPA,

oh dear, if you send nikita (offlist) the lines he'll correct them.

> but the only files in fs/reiser4/plugin/security/ are acl.c and 
> perm.{c,h}, and acl.c is empty.
> On the website you also suggest writing a plugin so /etc/passwd can be 
> split in to individually-permissioned sub-files. Is that plugin 
> written yet, or is it just an idea? 

Umh, it is in our contract, so that makes it more than an idea;-), 
however the person working on file inheritance got put on encryption and 
hasn't finished that yet.  There exists some code somewhere that I need 
to review and....

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> I'd like to write a few plugins to move mp3s' and oggs' meta-data into 
> the filesystem, and it'd be a lot easier if there were an example to 
> copy from. (Would it be better just to move that kind of plugin into a 
> userspace callback?)
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> Thanks,
> Jeffrey
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I agree that we need examples..... and more plugins.....;-)

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Hans