From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932170AbVISEhl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932221AbVISEhl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:37:41 -0400 Received: from mail.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.10]:18350 "EHLO newton.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932170AbVISEhl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:37:41 -0400 Message-ID: <432E4093.4060609@perkel.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:37:39 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <200509182004.j8IK4JNx012764@inti.inf.utfsm.cl> <432DCE2A.5070705@slaphack.com> <432DDF7A.3050704@teleformix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Maindomain: perkel.com X-Spam-filter-host: newton.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org PFC wrote: > > >> I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and >> causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a >> different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware. >> >> With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had >> problems. Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again. > > > Agreed - if the hardware has problem and anything is readable I'm happy. When I was sysadmin at EFF we got a bunch of IBM Deathstar drives - and for those who experiences this - every one of them fails. But they usually fail slowly. What amazed me was I would stat to see seek errors - sector not found and I would copy off everything I could onto a new drive before I lost anything. And - I thought it was amazing that I usually managed to get all the important stuff. So - I give reiser credit for being somewhat resiliant. here's the way I see it. This isn't like Hans Reiser is some unknown guy who has some wild idea that we all don't know. ReiserFS is a majoy player in the Linux world and many people like it the best. Several distros use Reiser as their default install. So to me this gives him more than average standing and the way I see it - there has to be a good reason to NOT merge it rather than a reason TO merge it. So - is Reiser4 going to break anything? If not - what is the reason to not do it? -- Marc Perkel - marc@perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com