Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

Ryan Hope wrote:
> So the purpose of that "plugins" document is just to "defend" the
> present state of the reiser4 code?
>   

Yes. In particular.

Plugins stuff is a way of data storage optimization and its
removing definitely would be a mistake. What can arise here
again is complaints about "layering violation". However,
addressing them doesn't necessarily mean removing the whole
plugin stuff. I hope that this document will help such discussions
to be more constructive.

Thanks,
Edward.

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Edward Shishkin
> <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ryan Hope wrote:
>>     
>>> Can you explain a little more what this "plugin design documentation"
>>> actually is and how it supposed to help?
>>> -Ryan
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> This document is to define plugins, etc primitives (like conversion
>> of run-time objects) used in reiser4, and to describe all reiser4
>> interfaces, so that it will be clear that VFS functionality is not
>> duplicated, there are not VFS layers inside reiser4, etc. (many items
>> are devoted to interaction between VFS and reiser4).
>> I am sorry, but these concepts (which are very central) have not been
>> worked out carefully enough at the moment of this 3-year-old review:
>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5330
>>
>> Edward.
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Edward Shishkin
>>> <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Theodore Tso wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:34:53PM -0400, Ryan Hope wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> Hi, I am here :)
>>>> Join our mailing list:
>>>>
>>>> http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#reiserfs-devel
>>>> http://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&r=1&w=2
>>>>
>>>> There are many interesting tasks to resolve/investigate..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>>> Hmmm, removing the plugin support might not be so hard....  I might
>>>>>>> have to try this...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>> Please, don't try to do this.
>>>>
>>>> I am working on the plugin design document. It will be ready
>>>> approximately in September. I believe that it'll address all the
>>>> mentioned complaints.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>>> I am not impressed with btrfs yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Well, if you're going to work on reiser4 (and I think there were other
>>>>>> people who had also expressed interest/plans to work on it; you might
>>>>>> try doing a search on the various mailing lists so you can coordinate
>>>>>> with them and avoid duplicating work), my suggestion to you would be
>>>>>> to find the comments that were made by the reviewers way back when,
>>>>>> and make sure those comments have been addressed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then, re-requests a code review, and promise that you won't abuse, and
>>>>>> insult the integrity and impugn the motivations of the reviewers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> Well, Ted, I'll promise ;)
>>>> We'll adhere strictly the propositional logic in the review thread..
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Edward.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> Hans did, and hopefully after they review the code, fix those problems
>>>>>> as well.  Then you can try resubmitting for inclusion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                              - Ted
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> My most up to date information is that Edward is still actively
>>>>> working on reiser4....
>>>>>
>>>>> ric
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>         
>>>       
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