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

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Message-ID: <44C90EA2.4000902@slaphack.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:06:10 -0500
From:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>,
	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>,
	lkml@...productions.com, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

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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