Re: reiser4 plugins

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-07-05T22:43:53Z

David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> writes:

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>> I have. And have seen /no/ benefit to you. Except, of course, the benefit
>> accrued from some magic in Linus' kernel, by which all format differences
>> go in a puff of smoke if they are implemented inside it, and furthermore
>> all userland gets rebuilt to use the kernel's way overnight.

> Let's say cryptocompress gets implemented. Not all of userland
> rewritten, not even any of userland rewritten, just a cryptocompress
> plugin for the kernel. And instead of having to learn a new tool, I can
> just browse around in /meta.

What is the relationship between file-as-dir or special meta-data and
transparent encryption+compression? I do not see why file-as-dir would
require such a special interface.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard