Hello On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote: > Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > napisał: > > > In other words, if a filesystem wants to do something fancy, it needs to > > do so WITH THE VFS LAYER, not as some plugin architecture of its own. We > > already have exactly the plugin interface we need, and it literally _is_ > > the VFS interfaces - you can plug in your own filesystems with > > "register_filesystem()", which in turn indirectly allows you to plug in > > your per-file and per-directory operations for things like lookup etc.
> What fancy (beside cryptocompress) does reiser4 do now? it is supposed to provide an ability to easy modify filesystem behaviour in various aspects without breaking compatibility. > Can someone point me to a list of things that are required by kernel > mainteiners to merge reiser4 into vanilla? list of features reiser4 does not have now: O_DIRECT support - we are working on it now various block size support quota support xattrs and acls list of warnings about reiser4 code: I think that last big list of useful comments (from Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) is addressed. Well, except for one minor (I believe) place in file release. Currently, Andrew is trying to find some time to review reiser4 code. > I feel like I'm getting lost with current reiser4 status and things that > are need to be done. > > Łukasz Mierzwa >
