Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

[Christophe Saout]

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 17:37 +0200 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:

> > > compression or encryption must sit below the pagecache to work nicely,
> > > and this hint things that usually sit at the pagecache level.  But let's
> > > assume you have a valid use for different file_operations, why don't you
> > > simply add in different file_operations instead of adding another
> > > internal dispatch layer?  
> > 
> > I don't know, ask Hans. How could the VFS know it a filesystem wants to
> > do something specific with a file that is completely transparent to the
> > VFS?
> 
> The VFS shouldn't, that the whole point.  That's why it allows the
> filesystem to register different method tables for each object.

Only the objects it can distinguish.

>         ops->file    = reiser4_file_operations;
>         ops->symlink = reiser4_symlink_inode_operations;
>         ops->special = reiser4_special_inode_operations;
>         ops->dentry  = reiser4_dentry_operations;
>         ops->as      = reiser4_as_operations;

How could reiser4 register other operations for files that should be
stored encrypted or compressed? It's all under reiser4_file_operations.

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