Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:06:10 -0500 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> Hi! >> >>>> of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer >>>> code, >>>> but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues >>>> such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". >>> Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to >>> fix it.
> A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux > compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle. > > Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format > willy-nilly, with zero impact.
They --do-- mean that you can change much of the filesystem behavior without requiring massive on-disk changes or massive interface changes.
After all, this is how many FUSE plugins work -- standard FS interface, usually uses another standard FS as storage, but does crazy things like compression, encryption, and other transformations in between. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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