Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Andrew Morton
2004-08-26T08:45:42Z

Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>
> >To get us started on this route it would really help me (and, probably,
> >others) if you could describe what these API extensions are in a very
> >simple way, without referring to incomprehehsible web pages,
> >
> what is not comprehensible....?

Pretty much anything at www.namesys.com. The amount of time which is
needed to extract the technical info which one is looking for vastly
exceeds a gnat-like attention span.

As a starting point, please prepare a bullet-point list of
userspace-visible changes which the filesystem introduces, or is planned to
introduce.

And describe the "plugin" system. Why does the filesystem need such a
thing (other filesystems get their features via `patch -p1')?

And what are the licensing implications of plugins? Are they derived
works? Must they be GPL'ed?