Re: reiser4 plugins

From: Eric Van Hensbergen (ericvh_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:57:19 -0500
    To: Markus Törnqvist <mjt@nysv.org>
    
    

    On 6/30/05, Markus Törnqvist <mjt@nysv.org> wrote:
    >
    > >instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one,
    > >conceptually) into the kernel. Sure, it could be made to work,
    > >but not without dropping our Unixness. And if we do, we should
    > >start by looking at Plan 9 =)
    >
    > What's wrong with "dropping our Unixness" if it means taking
    > an extra step toward Plan 9?
    >
    > Why is this a bad idea?
    >

    It's not. For those who don't already know about it: check out the
    v9fs project (http://v9fs.sf.net) - we're taking steps of moving the
    Linux kernel towards Plan 9 while trying to preserve Unix semantics
    where they make sense.

         -eric
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