Re: reiser4 plugins

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> writes:

> Nikita, I respectfully disagree with what you say about the state of our
> atomicity code.   It is not so far away as you describe, and probably 6
> man weeks work could polish it off.  You don't see the value in what I
> define as useful, namely atomicity without isolation.  Since you don't
> see that, it is harder for you to see that something is close to working
> and just needs 6 weeks of someone who groks what I am asking for.

No, I see the value of "atomicity", and think it is very useful. What I
don't see the value of is the making of premature claims.

_When_ reiser4 has atomic write(2), you have full right to call it
atomic, not before.

_When_ reiser4 is tested through objective benchmark-set exercising
various workloads, you can refer to these benchmarks as the proof of
reiser4 technical superiority, not before.

On a more personal note, I invested large amount of my time and effort
into developing reiser4, and I feel attached to it and to the great
ideas embodied in it. For reiser4 to rot on the forgotten shelf in
obscurity is the thing I want least. I want it to be included into
mainline kernel, but for this to happen, you have to take more realistic
stance towards err... reality.

>
> Hans

Nikita.