Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:00:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: So - What's going on with Reiser 4? |
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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > 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.
I said I'd do this a couple of months ago but of course haven't had time to scratch myself.
The second hurdle will be Linus's somewhat-hard-to-define rule of thumb for such merges: we'll only add such a large burden to the tree if there's vendor pull for it. Last time I asked around the vendors the response was fairly tepid, although that was a year ago.
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. - 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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