Re: reiser4 plugins

[Jeff Garzik]

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Duplication of effort.  With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers
> > > of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that

> > In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with
> > experience and kernel contributions have been arguing.

> So you fundamentally reject the prototype it in one fs and then abstract
> it to others development model?


For similar reasons, we don't let hardware vendors implement software 
RAID inside the hardware driver.  It's not appropriate at that level.

	Jeff


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