Re: Technical plugin details

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Peter van Hardenberg wrote:

>On November 12, 2005 12:32 pm, you wrote:
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>>Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
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>>>Hans,
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>>>I am having trouble modifying a file to use our new plugin. I've tried
>>>writing various values into "foo/.^4/plugin/file" but it won't stick.
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>>This is a business of plugin->h.pops->change() method.
>>And for regular file plugin this method (change_file) does nothing.
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>Thanks. That was exactly what we were trying to find. We did find it 
>eventually, after experimenting with some other plugin types to determine 
>what the problem was.
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>Of course, we are still trying to figure out how to actually create a file 
>with a different file plugin. I guess I will have to read the reiser4("...") 
>function as I can see no way to specify these things from a standard bash 
>shell.
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>-pvh
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If you want to document the learning process for plugins, we will be
happy to put it on the website.....