Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins | Date | Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:43:31 -0400 |
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David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> writes:
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>> I have. And have seen /no/ benefit to you. Except, of course, the benefit >> accrued from some magic in Linus' kernel, by which all format differences >> go in a puff of smoke if they are implemented inside it, and furthermore >> all userland gets rebuilt to use the kernel's way overnight.
> Let's say cryptocompress gets implemented. Not all of userland > rewritten, not even any of userland rewritten, just a cryptocompress > plugin for the kernel. And instead of having to learn a new tool, I can > just browse around in /meta.
What is the relationship between file-as-dir or special meta-data and transparent encryption+compression? I do not see why file-as-dir would require such a special interface.
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