Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

On Monday 31 July 2006 18:17, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Not too bad when compared to other FSes, but still.

How did you compare?

Because as I can see on lkml, other FSes also have deadlock-on-oom
bugs. Linus also talked about ext3 inodes being insanely big.

When singled out, none of these things are bad enough to hold off
inclusion. However, combined impact of _both_ of them
did upset maintainers enough.

Plus a, lets say, less than cooperative overall attitude, and a marked
tendency to try to sneak changes in by political arm-twisting.

Yes, this is present to a degree.

Frankly, on the first problem I think that you are right, Hans, and
putting plugins into VFS _now_ makes little sense because we can't know
whether anybody will ever want to have plugins for some other FS, so
requiring reiser people to do all the shuffling _now_ for questionable
gain is simply not fair. It can be done later if needed.

You are wrong. ReiserFS has no "right" to be allowed into the kernel.

JBD is factored out. So far it was a wasted effort - nobody uses
JBD except ext3.
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