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

[Łukasz Mierzwa <prymitive@pcserwis.hopto.org>]

Dnia Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:45:07 +0200, Horst H. von Brand  
<vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> napisał:

> Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, �ukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> > > Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds  
> > <torvalds@osdl.org>
> > > napisał:
> > > > In other words, if a filesystem wants to do something fancy, it  
> > needs to
> > > > do so WITH THE VFS LAYER, not as some plugin architecture of its  
> > own. We
> > > > already have exactly the plugin interface we need, and it literally  
> > _is_
> > > > the VFS interfaces - you can plug in your own filesystems with
> > > > "register_filesystem()", which in turn indirectly allows you to  
> > plug in
> > > > your per-file and per-directory operations for things like lookup  
> > etc.
>
> > > What fancy (beside cryptocompress) does reiser4 do now?
> >
> > it is supposed to provide an ability to easy modify filesystem behaviour
> > in various aspects without breaking compatibility.
>
> If it just modifies /behaviour/ it can't really do much. And what can be
> done here is more the job of the scheduler, not of the filesystem. Keep  
> your
> hands off it!

You modify the way the fs stores files or let You access them, since when  
it is a job for a scheduler?

> If it somehow modifies /on disk format/, it (by *definition*) isn't
> compatible. Ditto.
>
> > > Can someone point me to a list of things that are required by kernel
> > > mainteiners to merge reiser4 into vanilla?
> >
> > list of features reiser4 does not have now:
> > O_DIRECT support - we are working on it now
> > various block size support
>
> Is this required?
>
> > quota support
> > xattrs and acls
>
> Without those, it is next to useless anyway.

I don't use any of this and I live quite happly.


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