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

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Message-ID: <44DA03D1.1000100@slaphack.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:48:33 -0400
From:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>,
	Edward Shishkin <edward@...esys.com>,
	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>, ric@....com,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@...nkenlights.ch>,
	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>,
	bernd-schubert@....de, reiserfs-list@...esys.com,
	jbglaw@...-owl.de, clay.barnes@...il.com, rudy@...ons.demon.nl,
	ipso@...ppymail.ca, lkml@...productions.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
>>> objected against such checks:
>> Did I really?  Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
>> checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them.  I personally would
>> skip the checksum on my computer, but others....
>>
>> It could be a useful mkfs option....
> 
> It should preferably a runtime tunable variable, at best even
> per-superblock and (overriding the sb setting), per-file.

Sounds almost exactly like a plugin.  And yes, that would be the way to 
do it, especially considering some files will already have internal 
consistency checking -- just as we should allow direct disk IO to some 
files (no journaling) when the files in question are databases that do 
their own journaling.
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