Re: reiser4 plugins

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 14:29:08 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:28:49PM +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:
> not exactly. I meant that seq_file has its own VFS-like thing struct
> seq_operations.

It's not that VFS-like, it's more a set of callback than actual methods.
But yes, if you're actually doing work at a significant lower layer
adding abstractions make sense. Note that seq_file.c while not beeing
the VFS is also a generic library that you can use with any filesystem
if you want to implement sequential synthetic files.

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