Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

John Gilmore wrote:

>On Monday 24 October 2005 14:44, Edward Shishkin wrote:
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>>John Gilmore wrote:
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>>>There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the
>>>compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed?
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>>not yet,
>>this is under construction..
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>>>And if it was/wasn't
>>>how would I know the difference, and change it?
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>>I guess reiser4progs will be able to dump the attributes then
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>>Edward.
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>I thought the ability to muck around with the plugins assigned to  a 
>particular file was implemented as file-as-directory? I've tried to re-enable 
>that ability, but haven't been able to get it to work.
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This code (pseudo plugin) has been removed as mainline folks required.
It will be supported as an optional patch a bit later

> How are plugin/file 
>relationships handled without it?
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For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file 
plugin for regular files per superblock.
Then (if everything will be okay) we will granulate the relationship.

Edward.