Re: 2.6.9-mm1

[Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >  - reiser4: not sure, really.  The namespace extensions were disabled,
> >    although all the code for that is still present.  Linus's filesystem
> >    criterion used to be "once lots of people are using it, preferably 
> > when
> >    vendors are shipping it".  That's a bit of a chicken and egg thing 
> > though.
> >    Needs more discussion.
> >
> >  
> No distro using reiserfs V3 as the default is going to keep doing so 
> once reiser4 meets their stability requirements. Reiserfs is used by a 
> lot of people, and reiser4 obsoletes it, and the users know that. 

I agree that OS that choose ReiserFS for default now will adopt Reiser4 
instead ReiserFS 3, .... but they need to continue
to support ReiserFS 3 as well Reiser4 ...

In some sense this is equivalent to ext2 and ext3.

Thanks,
Giovanni


> None of the distros have expressed any intent of staying on V3, and 
> they'd be silly to do it. Many of them have expressed a desire to use 
> reiser4. Next year, indications are that reiser4 usage by distros as 
> their default will exceed that which is today possessed by V3. The 
> higher performance of V4 is going to increase our market share.
>
> I would like to encourage its inclusion as an experimental filesystem 
> BEFORE vendors ship it. I think first putting experimental stuff in 
> the kernels used by hackers makes sense. I think it creates more of a 
> community.
>
> I'd like to point out that there is a lot of stuff in the kernel that 
> is a lot less stable than reiser4.
>
> That said, inclusion in -mm found some bugs, and we are still testing 
> one of the fixes which was a bit deep. I want to finish that testing 
> (not more than 7 days) and send you all fixes before asking for 
> inclusion.
>
> Also, Hellwig made a valid point about getting rid of some macros that 
> reduce readability (I also hate code that prevents editors finding 
> called functions), and zam is working on fixing that.
>
> Lindows is planning on shipping with reiser4 in its next release. I 
> would very much like to see our inclusion before that.


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