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Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins
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    David> Spotlight on the Mac.  Users love it.  We can do it.  But
    David> not without changing something in the filesystem.

    David> Actually, I think we came up with several ways to do this,
    David> all of which required Reiser4 interfaces.

It seems the existing Beagle project is a counterexample to this.  In
fact, to make things even more perfect, Beagle doesn't work on top of
Reiser4.

 - R.