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    SubjectRe: So - What's going on with Reiser 4?
    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.
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