Ralph Ulrich wrote: > Edward Shishkin Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:49: > >> I am a bit disappointed: I wanted to concentrate efforts >> on the Linux port.. >> > > I would like to create some kind of reiser4-SDK where > more people can easily experiment with reiser4. > I am skeptical about expediency of the end product, especially after taking into account its possible high cost: why people can not experiment with reiser4, say, in uml (user mode linux )? > In my vision reiser4 has a big future as a specialized > filesystem: A filesystem where you can add special features/logic/semantics perhaps even dynamicly. > Imho specialized filesystem is something like ramfs ;) > I need a different reiser4: A minimal reiser4 "kernel" with > common features, this r4-kernel then loads extensions > special to a r4 partition directly from that partition. > I mean the defenitions of extensions but also the code > of these extensions. So there has to be a common > interpreter of such extensions included in a r4-"kernel". > > > This way every r4-"extended"-partition can serve a > different purpose. Eg think of some semantic > extensions special to music. Users would mount > a specialized r4 partition at > /home/username/mymusic > Or for pictures .... etc > > I believe reiser4 has a big future with its capabilities > in a field of special storage. Think of all the new > little "iphone" devices. > > >>> (probably D: has clean syntax, has classes and >>> >> yup, object-oriented means would be a plus. >> > A rewrite would have self-educational purpose for me > personally and could have documentation effects > (if done proper) for reiser4 in general. > > >>> Could reiser4 fit well to my purpose ? >>> >> You might want a high-performance reiser4 storage level >> with EOTTL technology. >> > EOTTL ?? > > yes, "extents on the twig level", the favourite Hans' feature.. > >>> The first part of my work would be to enable a special place >>> on disk for definitions of used plugins. >>> >> Sorry, can not understand the above. >> > See above notes! > Why to not load the "extensions" from a file? I don't think, that additional formats to store it on a "low level" is a good idea and the first issue to resolve... Edward. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
