> On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > > I can see LVM getting into a standard kernel but not really ext3
> > > (journalling ext2) or reiserfs. Ext3 adds stuff to the buffer cache
> > > behaviour that needs further figuring for 2.3.x to make Linus happy.
> > > Reiserfs exports half of the buffer cache into itself and includes
> > > extra C files in fs/buffer.c and has similar questions to solve.
> >
> > We are throwing out most of the schedule tracking stuff that gets
> > included into buffer.c as part of our SMP overhaul, and that should be
> > done soon (it is being debugged now.)
>
> Cool..
>
> > That said, we don't distrurb other folks's code, so why is it such an
> > issue?
>
> Because you might disturb other folks' _data_, if reiserfs goes wonky.
Not if you don't configure reiserfs on.... and if you do, then we can follow a
dereferenced pointer and corrupt your data anyway....
Really, extremism is to be avoided in such matters, because safety from bad
programming is never complete.
There are folks who want journaling, and won't use Linux without it. Lots of
them, actually, and that's why we now have sponsors....:)
Hans
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