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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, Å�ukasz Mierzwa wrote: >> > Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds >> <torvalds@osdl.org> >> > napisaÅ‚: >> > > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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