Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)

From: Łukasz Mierzwa
Date: Sun Jul 30 2006 - 06:12:07 EST


Dnia Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:31:59 +0200, David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał:

Nikita Danilov wrote:

As you see, ext2 code already has multiple file "plugins", with
persistent "plugin id" (stored in i_mode field of on-disk struct
ext2_inode).

Aha! So here's another question: Is it fair to ask Reiser4 to make its
plugins generic, or should we be asking ext2/3 first?


Doesn't iptables have plugins? Maybe we should make them generic so other packet filters can use them ;)
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