From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751139AbWG3GCJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:02:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751146AbWG3GCJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:02:09 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:55258 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751139AbWG3GCI (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:02:08 -0400 Message-ID: <44CBE8D7.7010008@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:01:43 -0600 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Masover CC: Nikita Danilov , Linus Torvalds , "Horst H. von Brand" , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Theodore Tso , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> <44C9FB93.9040201@namesys.com> <44CA6905.4050002@slaphack.com> <44CA126C.7050403@namesys.com> <44CA8771.1040708@slaphack.com> <44CABB87.3050509@namesys.com> <17611.21640.208153.492074@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <44CBA99F.2040306@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: <44CBA99F.2040306@slaphack.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Masover wrote: >Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > >>As you see, ext2 code already has multiple file "plugins", with >>persistent "plugin id" (stored in i_mode field of on-disk struct >>ext2_inode). >> >> > >Aha! So here's another question: Is it fair to ask Reiser4 to make its >plugins generic, or should we be asking ext2/3 first? > > > Shhhhh....., ext* already made their plugins generic, job is done....:)