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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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    On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:26:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
    > > OK, real world example. My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very
    > > popular hardware sampler from the 90's. The disk format is known,there
    > > are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM
    > > samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC. Are you
    > > saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4
    > > plugin to mount an MPC drive?
    > >
    > > If so, then Hans has an excellent point. Users do want this kind of
    > > thing, and it is worth having to fix tar et al.
    >
    > You don't need reiser4 for that, writing read-only linux filesystems is
    > trivial as soon as you have a specification of the ondisk format.
    >

    Of course I could just write an MPC filesystem driver. And, like Andrew
    said, a filesystem normally gets new features with 'patch -p1'. My
    question, which was answered by a previous post, was whether the same
    could be done in a reiser4 plugins.

    Lee

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