On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:26:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > OK, real world example. My roommate has an AKAI MPC-2000, a very > > popular hardware sampler from the 90's. The disk format is known,there > > are a few utilities to edit the disks on a PC and extract the PCM > > samples, but there are no tools to mount it on a modern PC. Are you > > saying that, since I know the MPC disk format, I could write a reiser4 > > plugin to mount an MPC drive? > > > > If so, then Hans has an excellent point. Users do want this kind of > > thing, and it is worth having to fix tar et al. > > You don't need reiser4 for that, writing read-only linux filesystems is > trivial as soon as you have a specification of the ondisk format. >
Of course I could just write an MPC filesystem driver. And, like Andrew said, a filesystem normally gets new features with 'patch -p1'. My question, which was answered by a previous post, was whether the same could be done in a reiser4 plugins. Lee
