Re: On plugins, on-disk formatting and such

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Törnqvist <mjt@nysv.org> writes:

[...]

Markus> 2) Is metadata stored anywhere? If I want to organize all my
Markus> libs in one fibre, I make it so, I reboot and do I then have to
Markus> reset the fibration for the directory? Is it possible to have
Markus> persistency here? Wouldn't a wrong fibration type make the files
Markus> inaccessible?  Is this addressed in the Reiser4 API somehow?

I have a similar question (or possibly the same question, except from a
developer's point of view, rather than a user's):

Are plugins able to request storage space other than what is available
for the file data itself?  I would assume this would be the natural way
to do indexing: store the file contents in the regular fashion, and
keep an index on the side.

And if the answer to that question is yes, then the next question is:
are plugins able to request multiple storage streams (e.g., if it needs
to store multiple indexes)?

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