Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Lee Revell
2004-08-26T19:53:22Z

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:26:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > If so, then Hans has an excellent point. Users do want this kind of
> > thing, and it is worth having to fix tar et al.
>
> You don't need reiser4 for that, writing read-only linux filesystems is
> trivial as soon as you have a specification of the ondisk format.
>

Of course I could just write an MPC filesystem driver. And, like Andrew
said, a filesystem normally gets new features with 'patch -p1'. My
question, which was answered by a previous post, was whether the same
could be done in a reiser4 plugins.

Lee