From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262994AbVFXBqD (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:46:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262995AbVFXBqD (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:46:03 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:9150 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262994AbVFXBp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:56 -0400 Message-ID: <42BB65BC.1010703@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:45:32 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: Alan Cox , David Masover , Horst von Brand , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins References: <200506231924.j5NJOvLA031008@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BB31E9.50805@slaphack.com> <1119570225.18655.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42BB5E1A.70903@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <42BB5E1A.70903@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >>>Duplication of effort. With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers >>>of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that >>In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with >>experience and kernel contributions have been arguing. > So you fundamentally reject the prototype it in one fs and then abstract > it to others development model? For similar reasons, we don't let hardware vendors implement software RAID inside the hardware driver. It's not appropriate at that level. Jeff