From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:06:10 -0500 Message-ID: <44C90EA2.4000902@slaphack.com> References: <44C12F0A.1010008@namesys.com> <44C28A8F.1050408@garzik.org> <44C32348.8020704@namesys.com> <200607230212.55293.lkml@lpbproductions.com> <44C44622.9050504@namesys.com> <20060724085455.GD24299@merlin.emma.line.org> <44C4813E.2030907@namesys.com> <20060726131709.GB5270@ucw.cz> <44C8FE41.5040909@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <44C8FE41.5040909@garzik.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Pavel Machek , Hans Reiser , Matthias Andree , lkml@lpbproductions.com, Theodore Tso , LKML , ReiserFS List Jeff Garzik wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> Hi! >> >>>> of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer >>>> code, >>>> but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues >>>> such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". >>> Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to >>> fix it. > A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux > compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle. > > Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format > willy-nilly, with zero impact. They --do-- mean that you can change much of the filesystem behavior without requiring massive on-disk changes or massive interface changes. After all, this is how many FUSE plugins work -- standard FS interface, usually uses another standard FS as storage, but does crazy things like compression, encryption, and other transformations in between.