From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261896AbVGEVCI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:02:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261927AbVGEVCG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:02:06 -0400 Received: from services106.cs.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.152.164]:4575 "EHLO services106.cs.uwaterloo.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261896AbVGEVBh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:01:37 -0400 X-Mailer: emacs 21.4.1 (via feedmail 8 I) To: David Masover Cc: Ross Biro , Horst von Brand , Kyle Moffett , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Hans Reiser , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins From: Hubert Chan In-Reply-To: <42C4F97B.1080803@slaphack.com> (David Masover's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:06:19 -0500") References: <200506290509.j5T595I6010576@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <87hdfgvqvl.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <8783be6605062914341bcff7cb@mail.gmail.com> <878y0svj1h.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <42C4F97B.1080803@slaphack.com> X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:ninja@slaphack.com::lTm5G613uwBGYyYT:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Pyu2 X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:ross.biro@gmail.com::2V712nNGEj1IOjFT:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000TdiD X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl::xJdMlo4nHxjqtncH:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000NTik X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:mrmacman_g4@mac.com::fVF/HO/2G8EssHhs:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000GPA6 X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu::C/7+CiayP+WjABDF:00000000000000000000000000000000000000IUpJ X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:ltd@cisco.com::IRLUlQh8Ipc2/yM1:00013lmA X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:gmaxwell@gmail.com::L8wYY8c2rNwGuAts:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000vZv0 X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:reiser@namesys.com::4GZTSE0dH9hYGk3c:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fTJC X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:jgarzik@pobox.com::1LnxxpEmTk/bfhXo:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fgQQ X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:hch@infradead.org::ZxIiXu1UPvoEA8Qc:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003Rkv X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:akpm@osdl.org::w66+i3tF1PutNS4B:00005tcr X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org::ZVFbQbs7tazj2wrE:000000000000000000000000000000000OcaU X-Hashcash: 1:23:050705:reiserfs-list@namesys.com::sf3vJ2MakqLbLBhU:000000000000000000000000000000000000eopO Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:01:17 -0400 Message-ID: <87ll4lynky.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (services106.cs.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.152.132]); Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:01:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Miltered: at aeacus with ID 42CAF543.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:06:19 -0500, David Masover said: > Hubert Chan wrote: >> The main thing blocking file-as-dir is that there are some >> locking(IIRC?) issues. And, of course, some people wouldn't want it >> to be merged into the mainline kernel. (Of course, the latter >> doesn't prevent Namesys from maintaining their own patches for people >> to play around with.) > What's the locking issue? I think that was more about transactions... It was whatever was Al Viro's (technical) complaint about file-as-dir. I don't remember exactly what it was. The technical people know what it is (and the Namesys guys are probably working on it), and the exact issue doesn't concern us non-technical people that much, so I don't feel like looking it up. But if you want to, just look for Al Viro's message in this thread. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.