Re: reiser4 plugins

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David Masover <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

>> I have. And have seen /no/ benefit to you. Except, of course, the benefit
>> accrued from some magic in Linus' kernel, by which all format differences
>> go in a puff of smoke if they are implemented inside it, and furthermore
>> all userland gets rebuilt to use the kernel's way overnight.

> 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.

[snip]

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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