Re: reiser4 plugins

[Hubert Chan]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:06:19 -0500, David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Hubert Chan wrote:

>> The main thing blocking file-as-dir is that there are some
>> locking(IIRC?) issues.  And, of course, some people wouldn't want it
>> to be merged into the mainline kernel.  (Of course, the latter
>> doesn't prevent Namesys from maintaining their own patches for people
>> to play around with.)

> What's the locking issue?  I think that was more about transactions...

It was whatever was Al Viro's (technical) complaint about file-as-dir.
I don't remember exactly what it was.  The technical people know what it
is (and the Namesys guys are probably working on it), and the exact
issue doesn't concern us non-technical people that much, so I don't feel
like looking it up.  But if you want to, just look for Al Viro's message
in this thread.

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