Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-27T08:07:16Z

Christophe Saout wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell:
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>No, the underlying storage must be a reiser4-like tree.
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Not necessarily. We just encourage it.... Reiser4 is a body of code
that can be sliced and diced as you choose, and it is designed for easy
slicing.

>If you want to
>mount an MPC drive, write an MPC filesystem.
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However, this last sentence is probably sensible advice. A mount point
is probably the right interface from reiser4 for what you want.