Re: reiser4 plugins

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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Horst von Brand wrote:
> David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> 
> [...]
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> 
>>>Reiser4 plugins are not per user, but per kernel.  They are compiled
>>>in.  The model is intended to ease the development process, nothing
>>>more.  Apologies if the naming suggests more.
> 
> 
> What do you gain by this? It is just a kernel configuration option of
> sorts? Just name mangling of existing mechanisms for no good reason at all?

I don't know why it's named "plugins", but the mechanism itself gains a
lot.  For one thing, certain new "plugins" for new kinds of files
(cryptocompressed files, for instance) can be almost as easy as new
plugins for (say) XMMS.

Still, Hans, it's high time to either rename these "plugins" or start
talking about bytecode engines...

>>But, to avoid confusion, the inclusion of a crytocompress plugin in a
>>given kernel doesn't mean that all files accessed from that kernel are
>>encrypted and compressed.  It just means that you can pick an individual
>>file and set it to be transparently encrypted/compressed.
>>
>>That is what I meant by "enabled".  Not per-user, but per-file.
> 
> 
> Wonderful! I carefully "transparently encrypt" my secret files, so
> /everybody/ can read them! Now /that/ is progress!

Explain to me how this is worse than how you currently encrypt your
secret files?

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