Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:34:53 -0400 | From | "Ryan Hope" <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1 |
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Hmmm, removing the plugin support might not be so hard.... I might have to try this... I am not impressed with btrfs yet. -Ryan
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:49:55AM -0400, Ryan Hope wrote: >> Why is reiser4 still not in a vanilla kernel for testing. I have had >> to apply the reiser4 patches from -mm kernels to vanilla based >> patchset for over a year now. Reiser4 works fine, what will it take to >> get it included in vanilla? Here is a patch to add reiser4 to >> 2.6.27-rc1: >> >> http://zen-sources.org/files/reiser4-for-2.6.27-rc1.patch > > The reasons laid out in these web pages haven't changed. > > http://kernelnewbies.org/WhyReiser4IsNotIn > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/28/180 > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=668645;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;list=linux > > Now that Hans is out of the picture, and Namesys seems to have > collapsed, maybe someone can yank out the plugin architecture that > Linus and others have objected to, which as near as I could tell was > part of the Namesys's somewhat dodgy business plan of creating and > selling (possibly proprietary; not sure what license they were going > to be under) plugin modules for Reiser4 to make money. The other > issue that was raised during the review were some locking issues > raised by Al Viro, if memory serves correctly. I'm not sure if they > were ever fixed; at least initially they were brushed aside by Hans. > > In the meantime, people who really like reiser4 might want to take a > look at btrfs; it has a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 > had --- except (a) the filesystem format has support for some advanced > features that are designed to leapfrog ZFS, (b) the maintainer is not > a crazy man and works well with other LKML developers (free hint: if > your code needs to be reviewed to get in, and reviewers are scarce; > don't insult and abuse the volunteer reviewers as Hans did --- Not a > good plan!). > > - Ted >
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