linux-kernel - Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

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Message-ID: <44C4813E.2030907@namesys.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:13:50 -0600
From:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
To:	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>
CC:	lkml@...productions.com, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

Matthias Andree wrote:

> The father declared his child unsupported, 
>
I never did that.

>and that's the end
>of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer code,
>but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues
>such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". 
>
Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to fix it.

>(I am well
>aware this is exploiting worst-case behavior in a malicious sense but I
>simply cannot risk such nonsense on a 270 GB RAID5 if users have shared
>work directories.)
>
>  
>
>

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