Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christophe Saout
2004-08-26T19:33:35Z

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Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell:

> > Well, in V4, you can easily compose a plugin from plugin methods of
> > other plugins, write a little piece of code with the one thing you want
> > different, and add it in. Disk format changes, no big deal, add a new
> > disk format plugin, or a new item plugin, or a new node plugin, etc.,
> > and you got your new format.
>
> OK, real world example. My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very
> popular hardware sampler from the 90's. The disk format is known,there
> are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM
> samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC. Are you
> saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4
> plugin to mount an MPC drive?

No, the underlying storage must be a reiser4-like tree. If you want to
mount an MPC drive, write an MPC filesystem.

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