From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261766AbVF0TZ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261732AbVF0TZ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:25:56 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34719 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261754AbVF0TWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:22:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:22:43 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alexander Zarochentsev Cc: Christoph Hellwig , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins Message-ID: <20050627192243.GA21932@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alexander Zarochentsev , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <200506271330.07451.zam@namesys.com> <20050627094223.GB5470@infradead.org> <200506271528.49674.zam@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506271528.49674.zam@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:28:49PM +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: > not exactly. I meant that seq_file has its own VFS-like thing struct > seq_operations. It's not that VFS-like, it's more a set of callback than actual methods. But yes, if you're actually doing work at a significant lower layer adding abstractions make sense. Note that seq_file.c while not beeing the VFS is also a generic library that you can use with any filesystem if you want to implement sequential synthetic files.