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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed
 by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:01:43 -0600
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

David Masover wrote:

>Nikita Danilov wrote:
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>>As you see, ext2 code already has multiple file "plugins", with
>>persistent "plugin id" (stored in i_mode field of on-disk struct
>>ext2_inode).
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>Aha!  So here's another question:  Is it fair to ask Reiser4 to make its
>plugins generic, or should we be asking ext2/3 first?
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Shhhhh.....,  ext* already made their plugins generic, job is done....:)