Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:05:45 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Christophe Saout wrote:
>Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell: > > > >>>Well, in V4, you can easily compose a plugin from plugin methods of >>>other plugins, write a little piece of code with the one thing you want >>>different, and add it in. Disk format changes, no big deal, add a new >>>disk format plugin, or a new item plugin, or a new node plugin, etc., >>>and you got your new format. >>> >>> >>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? >> >> > >No, the underlying storage must be a reiser4-like tree. > Not necessarily. We just encourage it.... Reiser4 is a body of code that can be sliced and diced as you choose, and it is designed for easy slicing.
>If you want to >mount an MPC drive, write an MPC filesystem. > > > However, this last sentence is probably sensible advice. A mount point is probably the right interface from reiser4 for what you want. - 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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