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

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Message-ID: <20060726134326.GD23701@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:43:26 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	andrea@...share.com
Cc:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>,
	Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>,
	Rene Rebe <rene@...ctcode.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@...r.Kernel.ORG>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:29:57PM +0200, andrea@...share.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:45:57PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:47:29AM -0600, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > 
> > > Wow, I would never have guessed our market share was that high as 1/5th
> > > of ext3.  I mean, you can't even get a distro which allows you to
> > > install onto reiser4 without hours of work so far as I know.  I guess
> > > there are people who really do care about twice as fast.
> > 
> > I doubt Andreas values have much value.
> 
> I think nobody ever pretended them to have much value, they only need
> to have some minor value to be useful. And as far as I can tell no
> better source of data about the kernel testing userbase exists as of
> today.
>...

Hans said "Wow, I would never have guessed our market share was that 
high as 1/5th of ext3."

And estimate of the marked share based on klive data is simply wrong. 
That was my point.

My distribution example was just one example of what happens when you 
wrongly try to estimate a marked share based on klive data (and it seems 
you missed the smiley after the last paragraph of my email).

cu
Adrian

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