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

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 11:59:49 EST


Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:

> > Looking at the code this could be done. The wrappers that dispatch the
> > operations are really small and call the plugin that is registered with
> > the inode of the mapping. Instead it could have directly set the
> > corresponding operations. Right. The wrappers are doing a few things
> > before calling the plugin. That could be done the other way round too.
> > But that's more of an implementation issue and could still be changed.
>
> I agree that it's an implementation issue. But it's also a good proof
> for how Hans tries to ignore all the existing infrastructure for various
> reasons.

I definitely agree with you on that one.

It bugged me from the beginning because things like these are very
likely to suffer from unnecessary problems that have been solved in the
common code or might be solved when correctly done in the common code in
the future.

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