linux-kernel - Re: Reiser4 Inclusion

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:59:21 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>
cc:	Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@...com.net>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>, arjan@...radead.org,
	caleb@...ebgray.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiser4 Inclusion

>
>Any why can those users not download and apply a patch, try it and
>report back to Namesys?
>
Because that patch pokes into some files outside fs/reiser4, giving a hard time
with rejects for the novice user. The linux kernel is a huge codebase, and 
I have, for example, less clue of mm/ than of fs/.

I was very happy to see that
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-4.patch.gz
worked well on 2.6.17 and 2.6.17.x, but it already stopped patching again 
on 2.6.18-rc1. The next newer version of reiser4 is for -mm, which is not 
so useful for me. If namesys provided reiser4 patches for every vanilla out 
there (possibly including -rc's, but that's just extra sugar), that would 
be great, but I cannot force them to do so; people may have better things 
to do than packaging up r4 whenever there is a linux tarball release.

Jan Engelhardt
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