From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932207AbWG3KON (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:14:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932229AbWG3KON (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:14:13 -0400 Received: from abfb156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.7.39.156]:11968 "EHLO pcserwis") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932211AbWG3KOL (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:14:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:13:47 +0200 To: "David Masover" , LKML , "reiserfs-list@namesys.com" Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) From: =?iso-8859-2?B?o3VrYXN6IE1pZXJ6d2E=?= Organization: PC Serwis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> <44C9FB93.9040201@namesys.com> <44CA6905.4050002@slaphack.com> <44CA126C.7050403@namesys.com> <44CA8771.1040708@slaphack.com> <44CABB87.3050509@namesys.com> <17611.21640.208153.492074@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <44CBA99F.2040306@slaphack.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44CBA99F.2040306@slaphack.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Linux) X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-PCSerwis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15.006, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 1.79, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-MailScanner-From: prymitive@pcserwis.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dnia Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:31:59 +0200, David Masover napisał: > Nikita Danilov wrote: > >> As you see, ext2 code already has multiple file "plugins", with >> persistent "plugin id" (stored in i_mode field of on-disk struct >> ext2_inode). > > Aha! So here's another question: Is it fair to ask Reiser4 to make its > plugins generic, or should we be asking ext2/3 first? > Doesn't iptables have plugins? Maybe we should make them generic so other packet filters can use them ;)