Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Christophe Saout wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell:
>
>  
>
> > > Well, in V4, you can easily compose a plugin from plugin methods of 
> > > other plugins, write a little piece of code with the one thing you want 
> > > different, and add it in.  Disk format changes, no big deal, add a new 
> > > disk format plugin, or a new item plugin, or a new node plugin, etc., 
> > > and you got your new format.
> > >      
> > OK, real world example.  My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very
> > popular hardware sampler from the 90's.  The disk format is known,there
> > are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM
> > samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC.  Are you
> > saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4
> > plugin to mount an MPC drive?
> >    
>
> No, the underlying storage must be a reiser4-like tree. 
Not necessarily.  We just encourage it....  Reiser4 is a body of code 
that can be sliced and diced as you choose, and it is designed for easy 
slicing.

> If you want to
> mount an MPC drive, write an MPC filesystem.
>
>  
However, this last sentence is probably sensible advice.  A mount point 
is probably the right interface from reiser4 for what you want.
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