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 15:23:26 -0500 Message-ID: <44C920BE.7000006@slaphack.com> References: <44C12F0A.1010008@namesys.com> <20060722130219.GB7321@thunk.org> <44C26F65.4000103@namesys.com> <44C28A8F.1050408@garzik.org> <44C32348.8020704@namesys.com> <1153854781.5893.5.camel@xenon.msp.redhat.com> <44C6AE9E.6020300@slaphack.com> <44C77B8A.7090303@namesys.com> <1153937787.25828.51.camel@xenon.msp.redhat.com> <44C81493.7030900@slaphack.com> <768278935.20060727221116@wp.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <768278935.20060727221116@wp.pl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format="flowed" To: =?UTF-8?B?TWFjaWVqIFNvxYJ0eXNpYWs=?= Cc: ReiserFS List Maciej So=C5=82tysiak wrote: > Hello David, >=20 > Thursday, July 27, 2006, 3:19:15 AM, you wrote: >> I'm not arguing for closed source, I'm just saying that once you open, >> there's no going back. Many times it's a good thing, but sometimes you > A sidenote. >=20 > Reiser4 is open and still we don't see people writing plugins as crazy. > I belive there is one group that tried to be the first outside of > namesys to write a plugin but still no success. Kernel inclusion would help a lot. Decent documentation would be=20 better, though. Someone should look at what FUSE is doing right.=20 Plugins fill a lot of the same niches, but with significantly better=20 performance.