Re: reiser4 plugins

Jeff Garzik
2005-06-24T01:46:03Z

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>Duplication of effort. With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers
>>>of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that

>>In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with
>>experience and kernel contributions have been arguing.

> So you fundamentally reject the prototype it in one fs and then abstract
> it to others development model?

For similar reasons, we don't let hardware vendors implement software
RAID inside the hardware driver. It's not appropriate at that level.

Jeff