Re: reiser4 plugins

Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-22T14:34:36Z

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:32PM +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:
> Reiser plugins are for the same. Would you agree with reiser4 plugin design
> if the plugins will not dispatch VFS object methods calls by themselves but
> set ->foo_ops fileds instead? I guess you don't like to have the two
> dispatching systems at the same level.

That is exactly the point I want to make. I haven't looked at the design
in detail for a long time, but schemes to allow different object to have
different operation vectors is a good idea. We already have that to
varying degrees in all filesystems, and making that more formal is a good
thing.