Re: reiser4 plugins

Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-06-30T20:34:48Z

On 6/30/05, Markus Törnqvist <mjt@nysv.org> wrote:
>
> >instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one,
> >conceptually) into the kernel. Sure, it could be made to work,
> >but not without dropping our Unixness. And if we do, we should
> >start by looking at Plan 9 =)
>
> What's wrong with "dropping our Unixness" if it means taking
> an extra step toward Plan 9?
>
> Why is this a bad idea?
>

It's not. For those who don't already know about it: check out the
v9fs project (http://v9fs.sf.net) - we're taking steps of moving the
Linux kernel towards Plan 9 while trying to preserve Unix semantics
where they make sense.

-eric