From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:08:00 +0400 Message-ID: <435D3110.8060204@namesys.com> References: <200510231850.45209.jgilmore@glycou.com> <435CF334.9040805@namesys.com> <200510241225.45686.jgilmore@glycou.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200510241225.45686.jgilmore@glycou.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: John Gilmore Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com John Gilmore wrote: >On Monday 24 October 2005 14:44, Edward Shishkin wrote: > > >>John Gilmore wrote: >> >> >>>There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the >>>compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed? >>> >>> >>not yet, >>this is under construction.. >> >> >> >>>And if it was/wasn't >>>how would I know the difference, and change it? >>> >>> >>I guess reiser4progs will be able to dump the attributes then >> >>Edward. >> >> >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. > 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? > > > 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.