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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:06:42 +0200 From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> To: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>, reiser@...esys.com Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs? On Monday 31 July 2006 18:17, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > Not too bad when compared to other FSes, but still. > > How did you compare? Because as I can see on lkml, other FSes also have deadlock-on-oom bugs. Linus also talked about ext3 inodes being insanely big. > > When singled out, none of these things are bad enough to hold off > > inclusion. However, combined impact of _both_ of them > > did upset maintainers enough. > > Plus a, lets say, less than cooperative overall attitude, and a marked > tendency to try to sneak changes in by political arm-twisting. Yes, this is present to a degree. > > Frankly, on the first problem I think that you are right, Hans, and > > putting plugins into VFS _now_ makes little sense because we can't know > > whether anybody will ever want to have plugins for some other FS, so > > requiring reiser people to do all the shuffling _now_ for questionable > > gain is simply not fair. It can be done later if needed. > > You are wrong. ReiserFS has no "right" to be allowed into the kernel. JBD is factored out. So far it was a wasted effort - nobody uses JBD except ext3. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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