Re: Plugin Patch (was Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation)

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Yoanis and Peter, you are very generous with your time.  Thank you.

Hans

Yoanis Gil Delgado wrote:

>On Tuesday 28 February 2006 01:24, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
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>>Hans,
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>>you've said that these kinds of plugins should be something a weekend
>>warrior could tackle. Our group had a real stab and dumped hundreds of man
>>hours into the project with little effect. Admittedly, we were not
>>experienced kernel hackers, but we were all comfortable in low-level C and
>>quite happy to read source.
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>>I request that a simple plugin be maintained as a standalone patch to
>>Reiser4
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>>Ideally, there would be a small set of these plugins demonstrating how to
>>create a new plugin which operates within the existing disk structure, and
>>one that extends the on-disk format in a safe way.
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>>This would allow interested parties to see in isolation what a Reiser4
>>plugin looks like and would further provide a conceptual grappling point
>>for the development of a new plugin.
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>>I have been getting requests for just such a plugin to be added to my
>>reiser4 developer's wiki (http://pvh.ca/trac/wiki/reiser4) at a rate of
>>about one every two months. A few successful third-party plugins would
>>hopefully increase interest in this.
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>>I realise you and your team are up to your necks in serious work on
>>hardcore lowlevel material, but I believe a brief diversion of some of your
>>resources would provide a significant reward.
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>>Right now, the cost-of-entry appears to be set too high for developers
>>outside your team to approach the project.
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>>If this information is already out there somewhere, great. I will integrate
>>it in the R4DevWiki and answer questions as best I can. If anyone out there
>>disagrees with me about the current difficulty of producing even a simple
>>plugin, let them prove me wrong with a patch.
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>>-pvh
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>We most take the advance.I suggest to all people interested in this to spent a 
>full weekend creating such a plugin. There is a possibility of failure 
>but..... we will gather enough question for the people at namesys and they 
>can share some ligth. Then we spent another weekend and so on...
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