From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261187AbVF1SwW (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261201AbVF1SwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:52:21 -0400 Received: from simmts8.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.166]:62626 "EHLO simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261187AbVF1SwN (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:52:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4783.10.10.10.24.1119984732.squirrel@linux1> In-Reply-To: <200506281401.j5SE1ORW003589@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: Message from Alexander Zarochentsev of "Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:30:06 +0400." <200506271330.07451.zam@namesys.com> <200506281401.j5SE1ORW003589@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:52:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins From: "Sean" To: "Horst von Brand" Cc: "Alexander Zarochentsev" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "David Masover" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Hans Reiser" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "ReiserFS List" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, June 28, 2005 10:01 am, Horst von Brand said: >> I don't belive that you want to see all reiser4-specific things as item >> plugins, disk format plugins in the VFS. > > Only what makes sense. Plus many of those will probably have to go. Decide > on /one/ way of doing things, even if not perfect for all uses. Everything > else is useless bloat. It doesn't seem to be a problem as long as loadable plugins are GPL. How is it useless bloat? It doesn't seem much different from having loadable modules in the security system. Just don't enable Reiser4 in your kernel if you don't want to use it. Sean