From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932238AbWG3Kah (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932240AbWG3Kah (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:30:37 -0400 Received: from abfb156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.7.39.156]:54661 "EHLO pcserwis") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932238AbWG3Kag (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:30:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:30:10 +0200 To: "Hans Reiser" , LKML , "reiserfs-list@namesys.com" Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) From: =?iso-8859-2?B?o3VrYXN6IE1pZXJ6d2E=?= Organization: PC Serwis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> <44C9FB93.9040201@namesys.com> <44CA6905.4050002@slaphack.com> <44CA126C.7050403@namesys.com> <44CA8771.1040708@slaphack.com> <44CABB87.3050509@namesys.com> <1154164364.2903.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <44CBA4BF.80301@slaphack.com> <1986618636.20060730024539@wp.pl> <44CC06A7.1030104@namesys.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44CC06A7.1030104@namesys.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Linux) X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-PCSerwis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-PCSerwis-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15.078, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 1.72, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-MailScanner-From: prymitive@pcserwis.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dnia Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:08:55 +0200, Hans Reiser napisał: > Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: > >> >> Hmm, what about linspire / freespire ? Linsire is a proud reiser4 >> debugging >> sponsor as the website (http://www.namesys.com) says. >> >> Wouldn't they want to include reiser4 in their distro first? >> >> >> > Not if the mainstream kernel is not going to add it..... If I got it all rigth then the VFS issue is there from the moment when Hans made a request to merge reiser4 into mainstream, nobody nows what will happen tomorrow, it will go in without moving things to vfs, it can go in with moving some code to vfs or it can stay forever outside. If it's not sure then no distro will use it as a main fs (or at all) becouse if tommarow Hans will say "Ok, will move things to VFS" then for the next year or so reiser4 will be simply dead, it will take a lot of time to recode it and this change will provide a lot of bugs that will need to be debuged, it won't a be a single patch anymore as You will need to patch that adds reiser4 and a patch that alters VFS. What distro would toy with VFS? None until it's all done, fully and trully tested and merged into mainline, it won't happen quickly and it is not said that there won't be any more complains when this is done. In my opinion there is no best option for reiser4 only less evil ways, it's just too different from other fs, too independent. Again I'm no expert, just enduser.