Where are the plugins?

Where are the plugins?

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

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

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

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

Re: Where are the plugins?

[Alexander Lyamin]

Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:24:47PM -0500, 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.
> 
> For example: You say on the website that you've written several security 
> plugins for DARPA, 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?
> 
> I'd like to write a few plugins to move mp3s' and oggs' meta-data into 

Personally I had about same idea to navigate through my media archive
with ease ;) 

Theres couple of plugins which supposed to be well documented which
are in process of development AFAIK, but let Hans and team comment
on this topic ;)

> 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

-- 
"the liberation loophole will make it clear.."
lex lyamin

Re: Where are the plugins?

[Nikita Danilov]

Jeffrey Yasskin writes:
 > I've been looking at the reiser4 source code for a few days, and I can't 
 > find any non-essential plugins.
 > 
 > For example: You say on the website that you've written several security 
 > plugins for DARPA, 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?

These plugins will be written later. For now, reiser4 has only plugins
necessary to implement basic file system semantics: regular files,
directories, special files, etc. There are also "pseudo" files used to
access meta data. Plugin for crypto-compressed files is currently work
in progress.

 > 
 > 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
 > 

Nikita.

Re: Where are the plugins?

[Hans Reiser]

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