On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: > John Gilmore wrote: > > How are plugin/file > >relationships handled without it? > > For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file > plugin for regular files per superblock. > Then (if everything will be okay) we will granulate the relationship. > > Edward.
So the first beta of compression will only have the option to control it at mkfs time? And then later on, compression control and status information will be available on a per-file (or per-directory) basis via a user-space tool operating on mounted filesystems? Which tool will also be extendable to control and give status information (where applicable) on other types of plugins? Is there a page that I could go to - some sort of "Major feature changes" page - to see what the current status of the filesystem is? To answer such questions as "Is compression ready for beta?" and "what the heck happened to file-as-directory?" and "I saw mention of a test of the reiser4 repacker, and also mention of compile problems with repacker.c, which definitely doesn't exist in MY version of resier4 - what gives?" (though I've concluded that that last one must be somebodies copy of alpha software...)
