Re: reiser4 plugins

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:25:24PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> > You're basically implementing another VFS layer inside of reiser4, which
> > is a big layering violation.
> 
> There's been sloppy code in the kernel before.  I remember one bit in
> particular which was commented "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw."  If I
> remember correctly, this had all of the PCI ids and the names and
> manufacturers of the corresponding devices -- in a data structure -- in
> C source code.  It was something like one massive array definition, or
> maybe it was a structure.  I don't remember exactly, but...

Every device driver has a big array of corresponing device ids as an
array in C code - oh my god we're doomed  .. not.


> I agree there, too.  In fact, some people have suggested that all
> "legacy" (read: non-reiser) filesystems should be implemented as Reiser4
> plugins, effectively killing VFS.*
> 
> So, Reiser4 may eventually take over VFS and be the only Linux
> filesystem, but if so, it will have to do it much more slowly.  Take the
> good ideas -- things like plugins -- and make them at least look like
> incremental updates to the current VFS, and make them available to all
> filesystems.

And why exactly would we replace a stable, working abstraction with an unpoven
mess?

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