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>> Arjan was just telling >> you that it's not up to the kernel developers when reiser4 gets in > >Well it is a bit. Current status is that we just don't have anyone who's >sufficiently familar with VFS internals and idioms who has the >time+inclination to sit down and work with the reiserfs developers to get >the thing into a generally-acceptable state. Progress has been made over >the past 12-28 months, but there's more to do. It's a huge piece of code >and a lot of work to do this. >[...] >So reiser4 is somewhat in a state of limbo at present. We need to >generally up the tempo and firm up some plans rather than letting things >drift like this, but I don't see a way in which we can do that. Yep, http://kerneltrap.org/node/5654 suggests [to me] that the repacker be finished first before it's of good use "Hans Reiser: Our fsync performance is not optimized yet, and will be bad until it is optimized. Our performance for fully random modifications will be bad until we ship a repacker." (kerneltrap article from September 13 2005) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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