From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Where are the plugins? Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:19:44 +0400 Message-ID: <3F551780.1030701@namesys.com> References: <3F51080F.7060901@mail.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3F51080F.7060901@mail.utexas.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jeffrey Yasskin Cc: reiserfs-list@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. ;-) > > > 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.... > > > 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?) > > Thanks, > Jeffrey > > > I agree that we need examples..... and more plugins.....;-) -- Hans