Re: reiser4 plugins

[Horst von Brand]

David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote:

[...]

> > Reiser4 plugins are not per user, but per kernel.  They are compiled
> > in.  The model is intended to ease the development process, nothing
> > more.  Apologies if the naming suggests more.

What do you gain by this? It is just a kernel configuration option of
sorts? Just name mangling of existing mechanisms for no good reason at all?

> But, to avoid confusion, the inclusion of a crytocompress plugin in a
> given kernel doesn't mean that all files accessed from that kernel are
> encrypted and compressed.  It just means that you can pick an individual
> file and set it to be transparently encrypted/compressed.
> 
> That is what I meant by "enabled".  Not per-user, but per-file.

Wonderful! I carefully "transparently encrypt" my secret files, so
/everybody/ can read them! Now /that/ is progress!
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