On Wednesday 22 June 2005 05:18, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is wrong with having an encryption plugin implemented in this > > manner? What is wrong with being able to have some files implemented > > using a compression plugin, and others in the same filesystem not. > > > > What is wrong with having one file in the FS use a write only plugin, in > > which the encrypion key is changed with every append in a forward but > > not backward computable manner, and in order to read a file you must > > either have a key that is stored on another computer or be reading what > > was written after the moment of cracking root? > > > > What is wrong with having a set of critical data files use a CRC > > checking file plugin? > > I think the concern here is that this is implemented at the wrong level.
> In Linux, a filesystem is some dumb thing which implements > address_space_operations, filesystem_operations, etc. > It is not so already. XFS, FUSE, network fs are not of that type. Thanks, Alex.
