Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > you've said that these kinds of plugins should be something a weekend > warrior could tackle. Our group had a real stab and dumped hundreds of man > hours into the project with little effect. Admittedly, we were not > experienced kernel hackers, but we were all comfortable in low-level C and > quite happy to read source. > > I request that a simple plugin be maintained as a standalone patch to > Reiser4. > > Ideally, there would be a small set of these plugins demonstrating how to > create a new plugin which operates within the existing disk structure, and > one that extends the on-disk format in a safe way.
I second this. I have also spent a considerable amount of time wading through reiser4 code in an attempt to put together a simple plugin. A standalone plugin patch would be invaluable. Look at all the ideas for plugins that have come up on this list, and notice that so far none have come to fruition. > Right now, the cost-of-entry appears to be set too high for developers > outside your team to approach the project. Agreed, after spending weeks on this I am almost at the point of abandoning it.. An example plugin patch (just something trivial) would definitely encourage people to get involved in plugin development. -- Marcus Furlong
