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

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Message-ID: <20060726131709.GB5270@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:17:09 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
Cc:	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>, 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

Hi!

> >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.

Well, too bad, if reiser3 is so broken it needs on-disk-format-change,
then I guess doing that change is the right thing to do...
							Pavel
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