From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Impressed. Any info other than source? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:16:29 -0600 Message-ID: <420029ED.1090509@slaphack.com> References: <1107223140.28831.110.camel@cunegonde.paulshome.acculin.com> <41FFADD5.7010605@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41FFADD5.7010605@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Info , reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: | Info wrote: | |> Hello, |> |> I am really impressed by what you're doing with Reiserfs. |> It is a wonderful mix of the immediately usable and great |> promise for the future. |> I am somewhat amazed that this is such a low traffic list. |> Am I missing some other place where this stuff is discussed? |> |> | Not really. We are in a period of stabilizing rather than designing new | stuff. Unfortunately, one always spends far more time stabilizing than | designing..... | |> Quoting from your website: |> |> |>> Looking at the coin from the other side, we want to make |>> it an order of magnitude less work to add features to ReiserFS so |>> that both users and Namesys can add at least an order of magnitude |>> more of them. |>> |> |> |> To this end is there any documentation between the general |> descriptions (.../v4/v4.html and .../whitepaper.html) and |> the actual source code? I have searched your site and the |> web (although I haven't tried BitKeeper yet) and can't find |> anything. It is not the actual internal workings so much as |> how to modify a plugin that I'm interested in. Any sort of |> howto type documentation? |> |> | The source code is intended to be very readable. I don't think there | should be any documentation besides web site and source code. I agree in principle, but in practice, a short "HACKING" file would be nice with any project. You have documentation for how to install, even though it's a standard kernel patch & config, so why not a quick "foo/bar/main.c might be a good place to start" kind of doc? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQgAp7HgHNmZLgCUhAQLsYg//ZChMl9gsQ3F7HeYwtjFb+nQw84Xv8YNu 3RCFebJrPkU0oWqq/V6ZLbJj1+ZcjlA6Hgnc/exEJH0Ms3XZD0nzl4jGoUr7NsMe KWsChP7F0PfpnSg6aG5j6RBYLP4J7WAegZ7+UgSA71adgVTrE6/I8rv6M4bfhTyj PXLGgtXxOK3u6WtudtOp5P7vTGBr52Qc1JrEGveErkkoHHx4GLgdRjR+dvDDdkfB Uk71iTtEYYw6Q4dYBfQu94yw3d9x+J0N+ENgpImnN3SdT+QmwFVPB3gMmTfJyTcj nj9p8PTHNcYMs5UxPwj4jctN10xp1VNk/hp50zsc6a1BegpuvvtNSlDa/8Q8+JcJ DXvCMzeQ6iStIxg50PSTVuk1IJ6Zq6XkyQpTpYAxtssuJn8US/pCWQ0htJmoEaMY Cl2dYXaUM/N28SSvfTxuK/0mcnJhs/yUQL9R5TcGPSnNjBx/hlJfQk69Zhi+yl+I oDcl+phnlcSwbUUwAHoTF7O2fCVgUmyzv6jGIJKx6XEVdbvvgXwunpzgXztuA8g3 bYgAkP3AFswyo7+qFsNtqQEORLs0E5zr9cv07LhQb+6S+6M4vg6/j605G/TLOBqE gqgEERy6thcdtMyFkjhXxyAlKGs3prRKzP47YMOQyuwI8OaprihrecgISC5lPGUQ jAmy3xiwlNs= =ymtG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----