Re: reiser4 plugins

Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-06T11:33:52Z

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:43:31PM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> > 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.

It's not related at all. transparent encryption+compression is a nice
extension.