Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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.
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