linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:26:23 +0200
From:	Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@...ons.demon.nl>
To:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
CC:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, 7eggert@....de,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

Hans Reiser wrote:

>Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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>so why did you take their stable branch away from them by working on
>more than bugfixes for V3?
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>Jeff, working on v3 at this point is nuts.  V4 blows it away....
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Hans,

I appreciate your vision and willingness to work to that vision.

The above though, is pure and simple PR. Please do not confuse PR with 
maintenance, or design maintenance.

I run pretty recent kernels on some of my servers and or workstations 
(2.6.17.4 at the moment). Some others are still using 2.4. All of them 
are using reiserfs3. I use reiser3 for most all, except video 
application partitions where XFS is used. For the past 2 yr i have been 
really pressed for time, and as a result have needed to scale back on 
pet projects, like testing new filesystems which are not yet into 
mainline. Once Reiserfs4 gets into mainline, i will test on a 
workstation. Till that time (and after) any work done on reiserfs3 is 
very much appreciated by me. It is keeping v3 up with changing 
requirements and expectations.

You cannot start developing a new version and then quit supporting the 
previous version. I consider the work Jeff and others have been doing a 
very good maintenance job. YES, a maintenance job. Addition of 
relatively minor features is part of normal maintenance.

I expect you to disagree here, i am used to that (having followed 
reiserfs list for many years).

Cheers,

Rudy Zijlstra

P.S. reducing maintenance to pure bug-fixing is tentamount to announcing 
EOL.
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