Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:26:23 +0200 | From | Rudy Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them |
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Hans Reiser wrote:
>Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > > ><snip> > >
>so why did you take their stable branch away from them by working on >more than bugfixes for V3? > >Jeff, working on v3 at this point is nuts. V4 blows it away.... > > Hans,
I appreciate your vision and willingness to work to that vision.
The above though, is pure and simple PR. Please do not confuse PR with maintenance, or design maintenance.
I run pretty recent kernels on some of my servers and or workstations (2.6.17.4 at the moment). Some others are still using 2.4. All of them are using reiserfs3. I use reiser3 for most all, except video application partitions where XFS is used. For the past 2 yr i have been really pressed for time, and as a result have needed to scale back on pet projects, like testing new filesystems which are not yet into mainline. Once Reiserfs4 gets into mainline, i will test on a workstation. Till that time (and after) any work done on reiserfs3 is very much appreciated by me. It is keeping v3 up with changing requirements and expectations.
You cannot start developing a new version and then quit supporting the previous version. I consider the work Jeff and others have been doing a very good maintenance job. YES, a maintenance job. Addition of relatively minor features is part of normal maintenance.
I expect you to disagree here, i am used to that (having followed reiserfs list for many years).
Cheers,
Rudy Zijlstra
P.S. reducing maintenance to pure bug-fixing is tentamount to announcing EOL. - 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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