From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030211AbWGYWuD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:50:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030210AbWGYWuB (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:50:01 -0400 Received: from atpro.com ([12.161.0.3]:19731 "EHLO atpro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030209AbWGYWuA (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:50:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:48:35 -0400 From: Jim Crilly To: "Horst H. von Brand" Cc: Hans Reiser , Andrea Arcangeli , Nikita Danilov , Rene Rebe , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-ID: <20060725224833.GG18867@voodoo.jdc.home> Mail-Followup-To: "Horst H. von Brand" , Hans Reiser , Andrea Arcangeli , Nikita Danilov , Rene Rebe , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <44C65931.6030207@namesys.com> <200607252117.k6PLHmSp016039@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607252117.k6PLHmSp016039@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/25/06 05:17:48PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > 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. > > That makes the data /higly/ suspect: Most of the Linux users I know > wouldn't know where to start to compile a kernel, forget about patching > around. And of the minority who can, they mostly run machines in > production, and won't dream of using non-distribution kernels, let alone > custom patched ones. Well if you take a look at the KLive webpage you'll see that there's only 485 computers providing data. I'm not trying to knock Andrea's project, but the sample size is quite small and only really representative of people who would be inclined to read lkml, patch their kernels, etc. Jim.