Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox

From: Hans Reiser (hans@reiser.to)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 05:07:46 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Alan wants us to wait for a committee that will sit around and build a giraffe.
>
> No. I want the small bunch of clueful people to actually sort out journalling
> and the needed vm stuff so that
>
> 1. We don't have 300K of wasted binaries if you have nwfs, jffs and
> reiserfs loaded
>
> 2. We don't spend a year chasing fs specific bugs
>
> 3. All the ideas people have to make journalling faster get concentrated
> in one spot.
>
> > Meanwhile I am going to go build us a locomotive, and see if it is faster than
> > our horse.....
>
> All I'm asking is you make it suitable for pulling a variety of trains and
> that someone figures out a common coupling between the locomotive and the
> stuff in tow.
>
> Right at the moment we are heading for a system where each train runs on
> a different kind of track

If you change from asking for code exclusion to asking for code change, I'll
happily put a standard coupling on the locomotive, and participate in defining
what a standard coupling should be, in 2.5.

3. requires an open social process that doesn't exclude code from social
outsiders.

Hans

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