From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Another article abour Reiser4 on linux.com Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:55:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44D4B154.6010005@slaphack.com> References: <87bqqzbaug.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <87bqqzbaug.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Tassilo Horn Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Tassilo Horn wrote: > [1] http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1548201 From the article: "To complicate matters, Reiser4's approach lands the filesystem in the middle of a longstanding convention of avoiding plugins in the kernel, mainly to avoid architectural complications, but also to discourage proprietary drivers that circumvent the kernel's release under the GNU General Public License." We should really find something better to call them than "plugins", or we should come up with a standard copy'n'paste statement to refute this.