From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:32 -0400
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>Duplication of effort.  With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers
>>>of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that

>>In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with
>>experience and kernel contributions have been arguing.

> So you fundamentally reject the prototype it in one fs and then abstract
> it to others development model?


For similar reasons, we don't let hardware vendors implement software 
RAID inside the hardware driver.  It's not appropriate at that level.

	Jeff