Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Peter van Hardenberg wrote:

>Hello all,
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>I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow 
>students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 
>metadata system to show it off and provide some real world use cases.
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>We'll be spending lots of time on this project between now and the end of the 
>year. If list members have ideas for interesting experiments, please, join in 
>and suggest them.
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>So far, we have a few nifty ideas:
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>1) tie the 'extract' utility to a shell script to copy existing metadata down 
>into the filesystem
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what is the extract utility?

>2) create a (very slow) shell which operates on the filesystem by xpath query. 
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can you say three paragraphs here?

>doing it right would be difficult, but faking it should be easy.
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>We are all inexperienced with kernel hacking and will probably ask some stupid 
>questions as we go forward. Our individual interests vary and we may find 
>that we have bitten off more than we can chew, but I expect it will be an 
>interesting ride, if nothing else. 
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well, you are all more qualified than I was when I started work on
reiserfs......

>Our first contribution will be a practical guide to installing Reiser4 (with 
>metadata enabled) under Ubuntu 5.10. 
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Oh, that sounds great, it will go onto our website under the install
button if you are kind enough to allow that.

>All the best,
>-pvh
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