Hiho dear readnerds!
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > ReiserFS got some funding because the ext2 crowd didn't care to give the LVM
> > author the time of day because he was in a rival faction, and we were more than
>
> Duh ? Hans check your medication hasnt run out.
nah, c'mon, don't start getting unfriendly, too :)
Hans just seems to be one of the persons who sometimes looses the grip of
the 'big picture' in favour of his own baby :) (I just can understand
this TO good ..)
Altough I'd like to have ReiserFS in the standard kernel very much, too, I
understand there is a different point of view, as it makes sense to have
as much common code as possible, expecially in a kernel, where the size of
the memory footprint is directly affected (and important!).
All of you people are doing a good job from my point of view, and lots of
the discussions have proven to be fruitful, leaving the code in a better
state than before. I do think Linus would as well reject the code 'as is',
due to lack of shareable code for e.g. journaling.
Alan seems to have come to the same decision, either by hurrying obedience
("Linus wouldn't accept the patch anyhow, so I don't accept it either") or
for the same reason, either made up from his own thoughts and knowledge or
from better arguments than those for other solutions.
I additionally do think that if - should this ever happen - RedHat tries
to _force_ Alan to change a decision without a reason that would have Alan
change his decision himself, they'd be faced with a hearty 'up yours!' ;)
The final decision lies in Linus hands anyhow, so lets stop this childish
bugging around and poking each other and continue to put out code (hey,
anybody writing journaling code that spans reiserfs/ext3/xfs/etc? ;))
Perhaps Linus even chooses to include the currently most grown up
journaling filesystem into 2.4, albeit refusing to have the code in 2.5
before the journaling code itself can be shared. Might be a good
compromise, but this are just my $0.02 ...
Sincerely
Count
P.S: I left open which is the most grown up journaling filesystem on
purpose .. you can choose yourself .. is it XFS, run by SGI for years? is
it ext3, which supersedes ext2 by extending it with journaling? or is it
ReiserFS, which got funded by commercial appliances that simply need its
features? .. or, any other one or none of them at all? .. ;)
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