Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Hans Reiser writes:
 > David Masover wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > If indeed it can be changed easily at all.  I think the burden is on
 > > you to prove that you can change it to be more generic, rather than
 > > saying "Well, we could do it later, if people want us to..."
 > 
 > None of the filesystems other than reiser4 have any interest in using
 > plugins, and this whole argument over how it should be in VFS is
 > nonsensical because nobody but us has any interest in using the
 > functionality.  The burden is on the generic code authors to prove that
 > they will ever ever do anything at all besides complain.  Frankly, I
 > don't think they will.  I think they will never produce one line of code.
 > 
 > Please cite one ext3 developer who is signed up to implement ext3 using
 > plugins if they are supported by VFS.

In fact, they all do:

struct inode_operations ext2_file_inode_operations;
struct inode_operations ext2_dir_inode_operations;
struct inode_operations ext2_special_inode_operations;
struct inode_operations ext2_symlink_inode_operations;
struct inode_operations ext2_fast_symlink_inode_operations;

As you see, ext2 code already has multiple file "plugins", with
persistent "plugin id" (stored in i_mode field of on-disk struct
ext2_inode).

 > 
 > Hans
 > 

Nikita.

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