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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:48:51 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

David Masover wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> >David Masover wrote:
>
>
> >>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:58:07 CDT, David Masover said:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>"Plugins" is a bad word.  This user's combination of plugins is most
> >>>>likely identical to other users', it's just which ones are
> enabled, and
> >>>>which aren't?  If they are all included, I assume they play nice.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Which ones are enabled. Exactly.
>
>
> >Reiser4 plugins are not per user, but per kernel.  They are compiled
> >in.  The model is intended to ease the development process, nothing
> >more.  Apologies if the naming suggests more.
>
>
> But, to avoid confusion, the inclusion of a crytocompress plugin in a
> given kernel doesn't mean that all files accessed from that kernel are
> encrypted and compressed.  It just means that you can pick an individual
> file and set it to be transparently encrypted/compressed.
>
> That is what I meant by "enabled".  Not per-user, but per-file.
>
You are correct.