Re: reiser4 plugins

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 09:38:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:32PM +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:
> Reiser plugins are for the same. Would you agree with reiser4 plugin design
> if the plugins will not dispatch VFS object methods calls by themselves but
> set ->foo_ops fileds instead? I guess you don't like to have the two
> dispatching systems at the same level.

That is exactly the point I want to make. I haven't looked at the design
in detail for a long time, but schemes to allow different object to have
different operation vectors is a good idea. We already have that to
varying degrees in all filesystems, and making that more formal is a good
thing.
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