From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268029AbUHZJ6H (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:58:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268049AbUHZJyA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:54:00 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:43421 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268033AbUHZIrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:47:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:45:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Hans Reiser Cc: hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-Id: <20040826014542.4bfe7cc3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <412D9FE6.9050307@namesys.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > > >To get us started on this route it would really help me (and, probably, > >others) if you could describe what these API extensions are in a very > >simple way, without referring to incomprehehsible web pages, > > > what is not comprehensible....? Pretty much anything at www.namesys.com. The amount of time which is needed to extract the technical info which one is looking for vastly exceeds a gnat-like attention span. As a starting point, please prepare a bullet-point list of userspace-visible changes which the filesystem introduces, or is planned to introduce. And describe the "plugin" system. Why does the filesystem need such a thing (other filesystems get their features via `patch -p1')? And what are the licensing implications of plugins? Are they derived works? Must they be GPL'ed?