Xuan Baldauf <technik--reiserfs@exmail.de> said:
> Mhh... it works, but it is deemed unclean and|or out of sync. Would some
> promise of the reiserfs developers (I do not know wether they would do
> that, but I think so) to clean and sync the code with the current VFS
> within the next (say 3) weeks help? (I don't know how much time it would
> take) I think they will do it anyway, but missing 2.4 and waiting another
> 80 weeks because being synced 2 weeks after a negative inclusion decision
> is somewhat hard and disappointing, especially after putting highest
> efforts for the 2.4 months. If reiserfs is decided to have missed 2.4,
> development will slow down, because reiserfs developers would have to
> maintain 2 versions (for 2.4 and 2.5), because there would be less user
> interaction (feature requests, bug reports, maybe co-developers) and
> because people would see their work and time spent the last months
> between their bills in the bin and not in /sbin. ;o)
What makes you think getting it into the kernel will get reiserfs
developers off the hook? They will still have to care for 3 branches (2.2,
2.4 and 2.5) anyway, and if anything the bug report load will go skywards.
I'd say fix it up, _then_ put it into the kernel. Perhaps in the first 2.4
releases, as new/experimental stuff. That should in the end really ease the
workload of the developers.
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