Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:30:59 +0200 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I appear to be the only one who is looking at the whole picture.
> > 
> > Merging a new filesystem has costs - I don't need to enumerate them.  Do
> > the benefits of OMFS exceed them?
> 
> Eh you, corporate linux developer, please don't discriminate what's
> going in the kernel just because of extra cost.

By "cost" I refer to extra developer time spent on maintaining the
filesystem.  The most recent example is the write_begin/write_end changes
which took a lot of Nick's time and rather a lot of mine also.

I get to see these costs.  I seek to minimise them.

> Let linux continue to be
> "by the people, for the people" if you see what I mean.

"the people" here are those who work on the kernel.  We want our time to be
spent as effectively as possible.  Sorry if that sounds corporate.
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